Demonstration of aerosol property profiling by multiwavelength lidar under varying relative humidity conditions

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1543-1557

  Veselovskii, I ^a   Whiteman, D N ^b   Kolgotin, A ^a   Andrews, E ^c   Korenskii, M ^a  

^a Physics Instrumentation Center   (Russian Federation)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL BACKSCATTERING; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; COARSE MODE; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; HYGROSCOPIC GROWTH FACTOR; MULTIWAVELENGTH; MULTIWAVELENGTH LIDAR; OPTICAL DATA; PARTICLE PARAMETERS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADIOSONDE DATAS; RAMAN LIDAR; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SUN PHOTOMETERS; TRIPLED ND:YAG LASER;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BACKSCATTERING; MOISTURE; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ATMOSPHERICS;

AEROSOL; AEROSOL PROPERTY; LIDAR; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETER; RADIOSONDE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 73149113711     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1254.1     Document Type: Article

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