Assessment of lidar depolarization uncertainty by means of a polarimetric lidar simulator

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 4935-4953

  Antonio Bravo Aranda, Juan ^a,b,c   Belegante, Livio ^d   Freudenthaler, Volker ^e   Alados Arboledas, Lucas ^a,b   Nicolae, Doina ^d   Granados Munõz, Mariá José ^a,b   Luis Guerrero Rascado, Juan ^a,b   Amodeo, Aldo ^f   D'Amico, Giusseppe ^f   Engelmann, Ronny ^g   Pappalardo, Gelsomina ^f   Kokkalis, Panos ^h   Mamouri, Rodanthy ⁱ   Papayannis, Alex ^h   Navas Guzmán, Francisco ^a,b,j   José Olmo, Francisco ^a,b   Wandinger, Ulla ^g   Amato, Francesco ^f   Haeffelin, Martial ^c  

^a Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR OPTOELECTRONICS INOE 2000   (Romania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

ⁱ CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; LIDAR; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLARIZATION; SHAPE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84990840484     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-4935-2016     Document Type: Article

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