Observations of the atmospheric boundary layer across the land-sea transition zone using a scanning Mie lidar

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 182-188

  Gao, F ^a,c   Bergant, K ^a   Filipcic A ^a,d   Forte, B ^a   Hua, D X ^c   Song, X Q ^a,b   Stanic S ^a   Veberic D ^a,d   Zavrtanik, M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Land sea transition zone; Scanning Mie lidar

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; AEROSOL EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL DEPTH; LAND-SEA TRANSITION ZONE; MIE LIDARS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; TRANSITION ZONES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; LIDAR; MIE THEORY; OPTICAL DEPTH; TRANSITION ZONE;

ADRIATIC COAST [ITALY]; ITALY;

EID: 78649513518     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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