Raman lidar profiling of tropospheric water vapor over Kangerlussuaq, Greenland

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1141-1148

  Neely III, Ryan Reynolds ^a   Thayer, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Lidars Lidar observations; Radiosonde observations; Satellite observations; Upper troposphere; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

AQUA SATELLITES; ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; GREENLAND; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; LIDAR OBSERVATION; LIDARS/LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; RAMAN LIDAR; RESEARCH FACILITIES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SONDRESTROM; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENT; WATER VAPOR PROFILE;

ATMOSPHERICS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

WATER VAPOR;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIDAR; MODEL VALIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PROFILER; RADIOSONDE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SATELLITE DATA; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; KANGERLUSSUAQ FJORD;

EID: 82655171929     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05021.1     Document Type: Article

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