Water vapor measurements by Howard university Raman lidar during the waves 2006 campaign

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-60

  Adam, M ^a,b   Demoz, B B ^b   Whiteman, D N ^c   Venable, D D ^c   Joseph, E ^b   Gambacorta, A ^d   Wei, J ^d   Shephard, M W ^e   Miloshevich, L M ^f   Barnet, C D ^g   Herman, R L ^h   Fitzgibbon, J ⁱ   Connell, R ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^e ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; HOWARD UNIVERSITY; LIDAR DATA; LOW RESOLUTION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MODERATE TEMPERATURE; RAMAN LIDAR; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SIMILAR ANALYSIS; STATE VARIABLES; TEMPERATURE-RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TROPOSPHERIC EMISSIONS; WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENT; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO; WEAK CORRELATION;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; SATELLITES; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIXING RATIO; RADIOSONDE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE DATA; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77952523307     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1331.1     Document Type: Article

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