III-posed retrieval of aerosol extinction coefficient profiles from Raman lidar data by regularization

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1649-1661

  Pornsawad, Pornsarp ^a   Böckmann, Christine ^a   Ritter, Christoph ^b   Rafler, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ERRORS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

AEROSOL EXTINCTION; AEROSOL EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT PROFILES; NUMBER DENSITY; RAMAN LIDAR MEASUREMENT; RECEIVED POWER; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 48949105249     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001649     Document Type: Article

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