Airborne high spectral resolution lidar for measuring aerosol extinction and backscatter coefficients

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 346-358

  Esselborn, Michael ^a   Wirth, Martin ^a   Fix, Andreas ^a   Tesche, Matthias ^b   Ehret, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; IODINE;

AEROSOL EXTINCTION; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDAR (HSRL);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 41549129400     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000346     Document Type: Article

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