Accounting for multiple scattering in retrievals from space lidar

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5059, Issue , 2003, Pages 128-139

  Winker, Dave ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; CALIPSO; Clouds; Extinction; Multiple scattering; Spaceborne lidar

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL RADAR;

CALIPSO; CALIPSO LIDARS; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECT; SINGLE-SCATTER; SPACE LIDAR; SPACE-BORNE LIDAR;

MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

EID: 85076817944     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.512352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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