New approach for aerosol profiling with a lidar onboard an ultralight aircraft: Application to the African monsoon multidisciplinary analysis

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 8335-8341

  Chazette, Patrick ^a   Sanak, Joseph ^a   Dulac, François ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIRCRAFT; BACKSCATTERING; DUST; OPTICAL RADAR;

BACKSCATTER TO EXTINCTION RATIO (BER); BACKSCATTERING LIDAR SYSTEM;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AEROSOLS; AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BACKSCATTERING; DUST; OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIRBORNE SURVEY; BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS BURNING; DUST; LIDAR; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DUST; FIRE; NIGER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOMETER; SAVANNA; SOIL; TROPOSPHERE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AEROSOLS; AIRCRAFT;

AFRICA; NIAMEY [NIGER]; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 37249000897     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es070343y     Document Type: Article

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