Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-2641-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-2641-2011
22 Mar 2011
 | 22 Mar 2011

Characteristics of CALIOP attenuated backscatter noise: implication for cloud/aerosol detection

D. L. Wu, J. H. Chae, A. Lambert, and F. F. Zhang

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