Portable raman lidar pollyxt for automated profiling of aerosol backscatter, extinction, and depolarization

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2366-2378

  Althausen, Dietrich ^a   Engelmann, Ronny ^a   Baars, Holger ^a   Heese, Birgit ^a   Ansmann, Albert ^a   Müller, Detlef ^a   Komppula, Mika ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RETRIEVAL; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; HOME SERVERS; LASER POWER; OPTICAL SET-UP; RAMAN LIDAR; RAMAN LIDAR SYSTEM; RECEIVER CHANNELS; SECOND GENERATION; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; THREE-WAVELENGTHS; TWO-CHANNEL; WEB PAGE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; MIRRORS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL; BACKSCATTER; EXTINCTION; LIDAR; POLARIZATION; WAVELENGTH;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MANAUS;

EID: 73149125541     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1304.1     Document Type: Article

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