The NASA Micro-Pulse Lidar NETWORK (MPLNET): Co-location of lidars with aeronet sunphotometers and related earth science applications

85th AMS Annual Meeting, American Meteorological Society - Combined Preprints

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 5165-5169

  Welton, Ellsworth J ^a   Campbell, James R ^b   Berkoff, Timothy A ^c   Valencia, Sandra ^b   Spinhime, James D ^a   Holben, Brent ^a   Tsay, Si Chee ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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