Improvements of the aerosol algorithm in ozone lidar data processing by use of evolutionary strategies

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2638-2651

  Eisele, Holger ^a   Trickl, Thomas ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; OZONE; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR (DIAL); OPTICAL COEFFICIENTS; RAMAN SHIFTS;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 19944385933     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002638     Document Type: Article

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