Systematic tropospheric aerosol lidar observations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5547, Issue , 2004, Pages 57-67

  Pappalardo, G ^a   Amodeo, A ^a   Cornacchia, C ^a   Mona, L ^a   Pandolfi, M ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerosol; EARLINET; Lidar

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BANDWIDTH; BOUNDARY LAYERS; OBSERVATORIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAMAN SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; EARLINET; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER (PBL); TROPOPAUSE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 14944343794     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.559046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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