A minimum variance method for lidar signal inversion

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 468-473

  Sušnik, Andreja ^a   Holder, Heidi ^b   Eichinger, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse methods; Lidars Lidar observations; Numerical analysis modeling; Optical properties; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893898823     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00125.1     Document Type: Article

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