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1 - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2022

Chiao-Yao She  and
Jonathan S. Friedman
Chiao-Yao She
Affiliation:
Colorado State University
Jonathan S. Friedman
Affiliation:
Universidad Ana G. Mendez
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Summary

Chapter 1 is an introduction, reviewing the current state of instructional texts on atmospheric lidar. We point to the lack of a treatment of light scattering as employed by lidar from fundamental physics, the motivation for writing this book. We then summarize the scattering processes, Rayleigh, Raman, Mie, and fluorescence, that enable us to probe the state of the atmosphere with lidar. We include a description of the structure and content of the chapters that follow.

Keywords

light scattering processesRayleigh scatteringCabbanes scatteringRaman scatteringBrillouin scatteringresonance scatteringlidar history
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Atmospheric Lidar Fundamentals
Laser Light Scattering from Atoms and Linear Molecules
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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