A new way to measure cirrus cloud ice water content by using ice Raman scatter with Raman lidar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Wang, Zhien ^a,b   Whiteman, David N ^b   Demoz, Belay B ^b   Veselovskii, Igor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ICE; MOISTURE; OPTICAL RADAR; RAMAN SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUD MEASUREMENTS; RAMAN LIDAR; WATER CONTENT;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE CRYSTAL; LIDAR; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 7044269693     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020004     Document Type: Article

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