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High-spectral-resolution rayleigh-mie lidar measurement of vertical aerosol and atmospheric profiles

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A new two-channel ground-based high-spectral-resolution Rayleigh-Mie lidar and its operation is described. Upon the inversion of data collected during the night of August 14–15, 1990, with this unique lidar system (553.7 nm), vertical profiles of atmospheric parameters including temperature, potential temperature, pressure and density, as well as aerosol parameters including backscatter-ratio, extinction coefficient and backscatter phase function are determined.

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  1. Physics Department, Colorado State University, 80523, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    C. Y. She, R. J. Alvarez II, L. M. Caldwell & D. A. Krueger

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She, C.Y., Alvarez, R.J., Caldwell, L.M. et al. High-spectral-resolution rayleigh-mie lidar measurement of vertical aerosol and atmospheric profiles. Appl. Phys. B 55, 154–158 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00324067

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