Ice clouds and asian dust studied with lidar measurements of particle extinction–to–backscatter ratio, particle depolarization, and water–vapor mixing ratio over tsukuba

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 7103-7116

  Sakai, Tetsu ^a   Nagai, Tomohiro ^b   Nakazato, Masahisa ^b   Mano, Yuzo ^b   Matsumura, Takatsugu ^c  

^a JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BACKSCATTERING; CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; DUST; EARTH (PLANET); HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIOSONDES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SUPERSATURATION;

NONSPHERICAL AEROSOLS; SUPERSATURATED AIR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0348198198     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.007103     Document Type: Article

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