Intercomparison of water vapor data measured with lidar during IHOP_2002. Part II: Airborne-to-airborne systems

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-39

  Behrendt, Andreas ^a   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a   Kiemle, Christoph ^b   Ehret, Gerhard ^b   Flamant, Cyrille ^c   Schaberl, Thorsten ^a   Bauer, Hans Stefan ^a   Kool, Susan ^d   Ismail, Syed ^d   Ferrare, Richard ^d   Browell, Edward V ^d   Whiteman, David N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS; WATER;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR; SCANNING RAMAN LIDAR; WATER VAPOR;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS; WATER;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; LIDAR; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 33846834072     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1925.1     Document Type: Article

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