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NIST Greenhouse Gas Data

This data constitutes the supplementary material for the paper titled "Ground-Based, Integrated Path Differential Absorption LIDAR Measurement of CO2, CH4, and H2O near 1.6 μm" published in Applied Optics 53 (2016) pp. 6292-6310 (DOI: 10.1364/ao.55.006292).

IPDA LIDAR Supplemental

Raw Data

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Contacts

Division Chief, Group Leader, Differential Absorption LIDAR Contact

Created June 21, 2016, Updated December 9, 2019