Scanning tropospheric ozone and aerosol lidar with double-gated photomultipliers

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 512-524

  Machol, Janet L ^a   Marchbanks, Richard D ^a   Senff, Christoph J ^a   McCarty, Brandi J ^a   Eberhard, Wynn L ^b   Brewer, William A ^b   Richter, Ronald A ^b   Alvarez II, Raul J ^b   Law, Daniel C ^b   Weickmann, Ann M ^b   Sandberg, Scott P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CALIBRATION; OPTICAL RADAR; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL EXTINCTION; ATMOSPHERIC LIDARS; CLOUD-BASE HEIGHT; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS; HOMOGENEOUS ATMOSPHERES; OZONE CONCENTRATION; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 61349090491     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000512     Document Type: Article

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