Ceilometer aerosol profiling versus Raman lidar in the frame of the INTERACT campaign of ACTRIS

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2207-2223

  Madonna, F ^a   Amato, F ^a   Vande Hey, J ^b   Pappalardo, G ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CALIBRATION; LIDAR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84934882129     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-2207-2015     Document Type: Article

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