Rotational Raman temperature lidar: New experimental results and performance expected for future ground-based and airborne systems

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 1, Issue 561, 2004, Pages 33-36

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; SPACE TELESCOPES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

AIRBORNE SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR (DIAL); ROTATIONAL RAMAN (RR) CHANNELS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 3142640872     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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