Potential of lidar backscatter data to estimate solar aerosol radiative forcing

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 770-783

  Wendisch, Manfred ^a   Müller, Detlef ^a   Mattis, Ina ^a   Ansmann, Albert ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SOLAR RADIATION;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTER DATA; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SOLAR AEROSOL RADIATIVE FORCING (SARF);

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 33645036186     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000770     Document Type: Article

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