Lidar determination of mixing layer height with high resolution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5979, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Martucci, Giovanni ^a   Matthey, Renaud ^a   Mitev, Valentin ^a   Richner, Hans ^b  

^a Observatory of Neuchatel   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Backscatter Lidar; Lidar signal gradient; Lidar signal variance; Mixing Layer Height

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BACKSCATTER LIDAR; LIDAR SIGNAL GRADIENT; LIDAR SIGNAL VARIANCE; MIXING LAYER HEIGHT;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 33244471573     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.627628     Document Type: Conference Paper

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