Effective lidar ratios of dense dust layers over North Africa derived from the CALIOP measurements

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 204-213

  Liu, Zhaoyan ^a,b   Winker, David ^b   Omar, Ali ^b   Vaughan, Mark ^b   Trepte, Charles ^b   Hu, Yong ^b   Powell, Kathleen ^b   Sun, Wenbo ^b,c   Lin, Bing ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

CALIOP; CALIPSO; Dust aerosol; Extinction to backscatter ratio; Lidar; Lidar ratio; Saharan dust

Indexed keywords

CALIOP; CALIPSO; DUST AEROSOL; EXTINCTION-TO-BACKSCATTER RATIO; LIDAR; LIDAR RATIO; SAHARAN DUST;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; DEPOLARIZATION; DUST; MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL; BACKSCATTER; CALIPSO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DUST; LIDAR; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 78649290439     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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