Comparisons of raman lidar measurements of tropospheric water vapor profiles with radiosondes, hygrometers on the meteorological observation tower, and GPS at Tsukuba, Japan

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1407-1423

  Sakai, Tetsu ^a,b   Nagai, Tomohiro ^a   Nakazato, Masahisa ^a   Matsumura, Takatsugu ^a,c   Orikasa, Narihiro ^a   Shoji, Yoshinori ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Japan Science and Technology Corporation ^*  (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HYGROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MIXING; RADIOSONDES; STATISTICS; WATER VAPOR;

CALIBRATION COEFFICIENT; MIXING RATIO; RAMAN LIDAR;

METEOROLOGY;

CALIBRATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HYGROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; MIXING; RADIOSONDES; STATISTICS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; GPS; LIDAR; METEOROLOGY; MIXING RATIO; RADIOSONDE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER VAPOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IBARAKI; JAPAN; KANTO; TSUKUBA;

EID: 34548646305     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH2056.1     Document Type: Article

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