Combined temperature lidar for measurements in the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2930-2939

  Behrendt, Andreas ^a,b   Nakamura, Takuji ^a   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RAMAN SCATTERING; RELIABILITY; ROTATION; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

MESOSPHERE; MIXING RATIOS; WATER VAPORS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 2542465826     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002930     Document Type: Article

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