Observing wind, aerosol particles, cloud and precipitation: Finland's new ground-based remote-sensing network

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1351-1375

  Hirsikko, A ^a,b   O'Connor, E J ^a,c   Komppula, M ^a   Korhonen, K ^a   Pfuller A ^a   Giannakaki, E ^a   Wood, C R ^a   Bauer Pfundstein, M ^d   Poikonen, A ^a   Karppinen, T ^a   Lonka, H ^a   Kurri, M ^a   Heinonen, J ^a   Moisseev, D ^e   Asmi, E ^a   Aaltonen, V ^a   Nordbo, A ^e   Rodriguez, E ^a   Lihavainen, H ^a   Laaksonen, A ^a   Lehtinen, K E J ^a,f   Laurila, T ^a   Petaja T ^e   Kulmala, M ^e   Viisanen, Y ^a   more..

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d METEK Meteorologische Messtechnik GmbH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; INSTRUMENTATION; METEOROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FINLAND;

EID: 84901275433     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-1351-2014     Document Type: Article

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