First-year operation of a new water vapor Raman lidar at the JPL Table Mountain Facility, California

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1454-1462

  Leblanc, Thierry ^a   McDermid, I Stuart ^a   Aspey, Robin A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CURRENT SYSTEM; FIRST-YEAR; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; LIDAR PROFILES; LIDAR RECEIVERS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; RAMAN LIDAR; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO; WATER VAPOR PROFILE;

CLOUDS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIXING RATIO; RADIOSONDE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

AFRICA; CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TABLE MOUNTAIN; UNITED STATES; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 65949088588     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA978.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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