Ultraviolet Rayleigh-Mie lidar with Mie-scattering correction by Fabry-Perot etalons for temperature profiling of the troposphere

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1305-1314

  Hua, Dengxin ^a,b   Uchida, Masaru ^b   Kobayashi, Takao ^b  

^a EKO Instruments Company Ltd   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FILTERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

FABRY-PEROT ETALON FILTERS; MIE-SCATTERING CORRECTION; RAYLEIGH-SCATTERING SPECTRUM; ULTRAVIOLET RAYLEIGH-MIE LIDAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 14844310192     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001305     Document Type: Article

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