Raman Lidar for Meteorological Observations, RALMO - Part 1: Instrument description

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1329-1346

  Dinoev, T ^a   Simeonov, V B ^a   Arshinov, Y ^b   Bobrovnikov, S ^b   Ristori, P ^a,c   Calpini, B ^d   Parlange, M ^a   Van Den Bergh, H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; LASER; LIDAR; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

LAUSANNE; SWITZERLAND; VAUD;

EID: 84882775748     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-1329-2013     Document Type: Article

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