Performance and technique of coherent 2-μm differential absorption and wind lidar for wind measurement

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 429-449

  Iwai, Hironori ^a   Ishii, Shoken ^a   Oda, Ryoko ^a   Mizutani, Kohei ^a   Sekizawa, Shinya ^a   Murayama, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lidars Lidar observations; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER EFFECT; OPTICAL RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND SPEED; YLF LASERS;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTIONS LIDARS; INTERCOMPARISONS; LIDARS/LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PERFORMANCE; RADIAL WINDS; REMOTE-SENSING; SONIC ANEMOMETER; WIND LIDAR; WIND VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

ABSORPTION; ANEMOMETER; BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOPPLER LIDAR; LIDAR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOSONDE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TROPOSPHERE; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84875644037     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jtech-d-12-00111.1     Document Type: Article

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