Calipso lidar calibration algorithms. Part I: Nighttime 532-nm parallel channel and 532-nm perpendicular channel

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2015-2033

  Powell, Kathleen A ^a   Hostetler, Chris A ^a   Liu, Zhaoyan ^b   Vaughan, Mark A ^a   Kuehn, Ralph E ^c   Hunt, William H ^c   Lee, Kam Pui ^a   Trepte, Charles R ^a   Rogers, Raymond R ^a   Young, Stuart A ^d   Winker, David M ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; CALIBRATION ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CALIPSO; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; DATA FILTERING; ERROR ESTIMATES; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; HIGH-ENERGY EVENTS; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIOS; MULTI-SENSOR OBSERVATIONS; PARALLEL CHANNEL; SIMILAR ANALYSIS; SPACE-BASED; THEORETICAL BASIS; VALIDATION DATA;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CALIBRATION; DEPOLARIZATION; NASA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; CLOUD; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; LIDAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349136700     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1242.1     Document Type: Article

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