Wyoming Cloud Lidar: Instrument description and applications

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13576-13587

  Wang, Zhien ^a   Wechsler, Perry ^a   Kuestner, William ^a   French, Jeffrey ^a   Rodi, Alfred ^a   Glover, Brent ^a   Burkhart, Matthew ^a   Lukens, Donal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; ELASTIC LIDARS; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; STAND-ALONE INSTRUMENTS; TWO CHANNEL; UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING KING AIRS; WYOMING CLOUD RADARS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

WATER;

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FORECASTING; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; METEOROLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; LASERS; LIGHT; METEOROLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADAR; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WATER;

EID: 68349128450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013576     Document Type: Article

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