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Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 356265, 36 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/356265
Review Article

Lidar Measurements for Desert Dust Characterization: An Overview

L. Mona,1 Z. Liu,2 D. Müller,2,3,4 A. Omar,5 A. Papayannis,6 G. Pappalardo,1 N. Sugimoto,7 and M. Vaughan5

1Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA), C.da S. Loja, Potenza 85050 Tito Scalo, Italy
2Science Systems and ApplicationS Inc., c/o NASA Langley Research Center MS 475, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
3Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT), Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
4Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 1 Cheomdan-Gwagiro, Buk-Gu, Gwangju 500-712, Republic of Korea
5NASA Langley Research Center, MS 475, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
6Laser Remote Sensing laboratory, Physics Department, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece
7National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan

Received 15 February 2012; Revised 31 May 2012; Accepted 30 July 2012

Academic Editor: Aristides Bartzokas

Copyright © 2012 L. Mona et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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