Intercomparison of water vapor data measured with lidar during IHOP_2002. Part I: Airborne to groud-based lidar systems and comparisons with chilled-mirror hygrometer radiosondes

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-21

  Behrendt, Andreas ^a   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a   Di Girolamo, Paolo ^b   Kiemle, Christoph ^c   Bauer, Hans Stefan ^a   Schaberl, Thorsten ^a   Summa, Donato ^b   Whiteman, David N ^d   Demoz, Belay B ^d   Browell, Edward V ^e   Ismail, Syed ^e   Ferrare, Richard ^e   Kool, Susan ^e   Ehret, Gerhard ^c   Wang, Junhong ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HYGROMETERS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; VAPORS; WATER;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR; SCANNING RAMAN LIDAR; WATER VAPOR;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HYGROMETERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; VAPORS; WATER;

DATA ACQUISITION; HUMIDITY; LIDAR; RADIOSONDE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 33846848009     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1924.1     Document Type: Article

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