Raman lidar for meteorological observations, RALMO - Part 2: Validation of water vapor measurements

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1347-1358

  Brocard, E ^a   Philipona, R ^a   Haefele, A ^a   Romanens, G ^a   Mueller, A ^a   Ruffieux, D ^a   Simeonov, V ^b   Calpini, B ^a  

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

^b Fluid Mechanics Laboratory   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA SET; GPS; HUMIDITY; LIDAR; MIXING RATIO; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIOSONDE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

PAYERNE; SWITZERLAND; VAUD;

EID: 84882780076     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-1347-2013     Document Type: Article

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