Spaceborne profiling of atmospheric temperature and particle extinction with pure rotational Raman lidar and of relative humidity in combination with differential absorption lidar: Performance simulations

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2474-2494

  Girolamo, Paolo Di ^a   Behrendt, Andreas ^b   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; RAMAN SCATTERING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR (DIAL) TECHNIQUE; ROTATIONAL RAMAN (RR) TECHNIQUE; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (WMO);

OPTICAL RADAR;

ARTICLE;

EID: 33744477104     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002474     Document Type: Article

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