Tropospheric water vapour soundings by lidar at high Arctic latitudes

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 289-302

  Gerding, Michael ^a,b   Ritter, Christoph ^a   Müller, Marion ^a   Neuber, Roland ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Lidar; Polar atmosphere; Troposphere composition and chemistry; Tropospheric water vapour

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; NITROGEN; OPTICAL RADAR; RAMAN SCATTERING; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERE; WATER;

AIR MASSES; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSION; OROGRAPHY; WATER VAPORS;

VAPORS;

AEROSOL; LIDAR; POLAR REGION; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WORLD;

EID: 17644390909     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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