Evidence of a tropospheric aerosol backscatter background mode
- 15 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 28 (6) , 1040-1042
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.28.001040
Abstract
Climatologies of aerosol backscatter profiles, derived from airborne and ground-based CO2 lidar returns, indicate a high frequency of occurrence for a narrow range of low backscatter values within the troposphere—a background mode.Keywords
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