An assessment of pseudo-operational ground-based light detection and ranging sensors to determine the boundary-layer structure in the coastal atmosphere

Advances in Meteorology

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Milroy, Conor ^a   Martucci, Giovanni ^a   Lolli, Simone ^b,c   Loaec, Sophie ^b   Sauvage, Laurent ^b   Xueref Remy, Irène ^d   Lavrič, Jošt V ^d,e   Ciais, Philippe ^d   Feist, Dietrich G ^e   Biavati, Gionata ^e   O'Dowd, Colin D ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b LEOSPHERE   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

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EID: 84865474700     PISSN: 16879309     EISSN: 16879317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/929080     Document Type: Article

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