Algorithm improvement and validation of National Institute for Environmental Studies ozone differential absorption lidar at the Tsukuba Network for Detection of Stratospheric Change complementary station

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3561-3576

  Park, Chan Bong ^a   Nakane, Hideaki ^a   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^a   Matsui, Ichiro ^a   Sasano, Yasuhiro ^a   Fujinuma, Yasumi ^a   Ikeuchi, Izumi ^b   Kurokawa, Jun Ichi ^b   Furuhashi, Noritaka ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OZONE; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (NIES); SIGNAL-INDUCED NOISE; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOL AND GAS EXPERIMENT II (SAGE II); TEMPERATURE LIDAR MEASUREMENTS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 33745805367     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.003561     Document Type: Article

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