Preliminary testing of a water-vapor differential absorption LIDAR (DIAL) using a widely tunable amplified diode laser source

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3932-3935

  Obland, Michael D ^a   Repasky, Kevin S ^b   Shaw, Joseph A ^b   Carlsten, John L ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AMPLIFICATION; CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LASER TUNING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; WATER VAPOR DISTRIBUTION;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 34948903830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.1013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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