Feasibility study of integral property retrieval for tropospheric aerosol from Raman lidar data using principal component analysis

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2173-2186

  De Graaf, Martin ^a   Apituley, Arnoud ^a   Donovan, David P ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; OPTICAL RADAR; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL EXTINCTION; AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; PRIORI INFORMATION; PROPERTY RETRIEVALS; RAMAN LIDAR MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875833081     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.002173     Document Type: Article

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