A large-aperture sodium fluorescence lidar with very high resolution for mesopause dynamics and adaptive optics studies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Pfrommer, T ^a   Hickson, P ^a   She, C Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; OPTICAL RADAR; POWER SPECTRUM;

DENSITY STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC REGION; FLUORESCENCE LIDAR; GRAVITY WAVE OSCILLATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ BILLOWS; KOLMOGOROV TURBULENCE; LARGE APERTURE; LARGE-SCALE INSTABILITY; LIDAR SYSTEMS; METEOR ABLATION; MULTIPLE LAYERS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT DENSITY; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

SODIUM;

GRAVITY WAVE; LIDAR; MESOPAUSE; RESOLUTION; SODIUM; THERMOSPHERE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 70350028313     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038802     Document Type: Article

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