Lidar measurement of planetary boundary layer height and comparison with microwave profiling radiometer observation

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1965-1972

  Wang, Z ^a,b   Cao, X ^a   Zhang, L ^a   Notholt, J ^b   Zhou, B ^a   Liu, R ^a   Zhang, B ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA SET; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIOMETER; RURAL AREA;

CHINA; GANSU; LANZHOU; YUZHONG;

EID: 84865269256     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-1965-2012     Document Type: Article

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