Ground-based mie-scattering lidar measurements of aerosol extinction profiles during ABC-EAREX 2005: Comparisons of instruments and inversion algorithms

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 377-396

  Yoon, Soon Chang ^a   Kim, Sang Woo ^a   Kim, Man Hae ^a   Shimizu, Atsushi ^b   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LIDAR; MIE THEORY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 47249120391     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.86.377     Document Type: Article

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