Particle backscatter, extinction, and lidar ratio profiling with Raman lidar in south and north China

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 6302-6308

  Tesche, Matthias ^a   Ansmann, Albert ^a   Müller, Detlef ^a   Althausen, Dietrich ^a   Engelmann, Ronny ^a   Hu, Min ^b   Zhang, Yuanghang ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

LIDAR RATIO PROFILING; LIGHT EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; PARTICLE BACKSCATTER;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 35348936305     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006302     Document Type: Article

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