The relationship between aerosol backscatter coefficient and atmospheric relative humidity in an urban area over Athens, Greece, using raman lidar and radiosonde data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 8983-9006

  Angelou, N ^a,c   Papayannis, A ^a   Mamouri, R E ^a   Amiridis, V ^b   Tsaknakis, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTER LIDAR; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LINEAR CORRELATION; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; CORRELATION; LIDAR; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; BALKAN; GREECE; TURKMENISTAN;

EID: 79960531940     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.531786     Document Type: Article

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