An empirical method to correct for temperature-dependent variations in the overlap function of CHM15k ceilometers

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2947-2959

  Hervo, Maxime ^a   Poltera, Yann ^a,b   Haefele, Alexander ^a  

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

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTIFACT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; DIURNAL VARIATION; EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIDAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84978415194     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-2947-2016     Document Type: Article

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