Validation of the Raman lidar algorithm for quantifying aerosol extinction

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 7073-7088

  Russo, Felicita ^a   Whiteman, David N ^b   Demoz, Belay ^b   Hoff, Raymond M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CHI-SQUARED TECHNIQUE; MOLECULAR RAMAN SIGNALS; RAMAN LIDAR DATA;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 33750541486     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007073     Document Type: Article

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