Particle backscatter and extinction profiling with the spaceborne high-spectral-resolution Doppler lidar ALADIN: Methodology and simulations

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 6606-6622

  Ansmann, Albert ^a   Wandinger, Ulla ^a   Le Rille, Olivier ^b   Lajas, Dulce ^b   Straume, Anne Grete ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC LASER DOPPLER INSTRUMENT (ALADIN); BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; PARTICLE BACKSCATTER;

DOPPLER RADAR;

EID: 36749059013     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006606     Document Type: Article

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