Ultraviolet high-spectral-resolution Doppler lidar for measuring wind field and aerosol optical properties

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 6023-6030

  Imaki, Masaharu ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; DOPPLER EFFECT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTIES; HIGH-SPECTRAL-RESOLUTION (HSR) TECHNIQUES; WAVELENGHTH;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 28044442057     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006023     Document Type: Article

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