Measurements of cirrus cloud backscatter color ratio with a two-wavelength lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1478-1485

  Tao, Zongming ^a   McCormick, M Patrick ^a   Wu, Dong ^a,b   Liu, Zhaoyan ^c   Vaughan, Mark A ^d  

^a HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COLOR; OPTICAL RADAR;

BACKSCATTER RATIO; CIRRUS CLOUDS; COLOR RATIOS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PEAK VALUES; RANGE RESOLUTION; TIME-PERIODS; TWO WAVELENGTH;

CLOUDS;

EID: 45749083507     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001478     Document Type: Article

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