A One-Year Cloud Climatology Derived from the Micro Pulse Lidar
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A cloud detection algorithm that attempts to identify all of the significant power returns from the vertical column above the micro pulse lidar at all times was applied to one year of micro pulse lidar data collected at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) central facility near Lamont, Oklahoma. The results of this analysis are presented, and the potential significance of such long-term lidar measurements is considered.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997