Determination of the boundary layer top from lidar backscatter profiles using a Haar wavelet method over Wuhan, China

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 343-349

  Mao, Feiyue ^a,b   Gong, Wei ^a   Song, Shalei ^c   Zhu, Zhongmin ^d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Lidar; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

BACKSCATTER PROFILES; EARTH'S SURFACE; ENTRAINMENT ZONE; GENERAL PATTERNS; LIDAR (LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING); LONG TERM MONITORING; REAL-TIME FEEDBACK; WAVELET;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84867217927     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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