Systematic distortions in Water Vapor Mixing Ratio and Aerosol Scattering Ratio from a Raman Lidar

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6750, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Adam, Mariana ^a   Venable, Demetrius D ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol scattering ratio; Calibration; Gluing; Howard university; Incomplete overlap correction; Raman lidar; Systematic distortions; Temperature dependent lidar equation; Water vapor mixing ratio

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL SCATTERING RATIO; HOWARD UNIVERSITY; INCOMPLETE OVERLAP CORRECTION; RAMAN LIDAR; SYSTEMATIC DISTORTIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT LIDAR EQUATION; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; ERRORS; GLUING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMELTING; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; WATER VAPOR;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

EID: 57549104533     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.738205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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