Monitoring cirrus clouds with lidar in the Southern Hemisphere: A local study over Buenos Aires. 1. Tropopause heights

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-26

  Lakkis, Susan Gabriela ^a   Lavorato, Mario ^b   Canziani, Pablo Osvaldo ^a,c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA ARGENTINA   (Argentina)

^b CEILAP CITEFA CONICET   (Argentina)

^c Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cirrus; Lidar; Rawinsonde; Tropopause

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BACKSCATTERING; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE;

ARGENTINA; BACKSCATTER LIDAR; BACKSCATTERING SIGNALS; BUENOS AIRES; CIRRUS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUDS PROPERTIES; DETECTION METHODS; DYNAMIC RANGE (DR); HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LID AR SYSTEMS; LIDAR; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; NOISE RATIOS; RAWINSONDE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (SH); TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS; TROPOPAUSE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE (UT);

CLOUDS;

BACKSCATTER; CIRRUS; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LIDAR; RADIATIVE FORCING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 58549118242     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.08.003     Document Type: Review

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