Algorithm to retrieve aerosol optical properties from high-spectral- resolution lidar and polarization mie-scattering lidar measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4094-4103

  Nishizawa, Tomoaki ^a   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^a   Matsui, Ichiro ^a   Shimizu, Atsushi ^a   Tatarov, Boyan ^a   Okamoto, Hajime ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Algorithms; Geophysics; Laser radar

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; AEROSOL COMPONENTS; AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL TYPES; ASIAN DUST; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; DUST PARTICLE; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; GLOBAL AEROSOL; HIGH-SPECTRAL-RESOLUTION LIDAR; LASER RADAR; LIDAR RATIO; MIE THEORY; MIE-SCATTERING LIDAR; NONSPHERICITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF AEROSOLS; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOLARIZATION; DUST; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOOT;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 69949090770     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2000797     Document Type: Article

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