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This chapter focuses on two of the many available techniques for remotely probing the atmosphere: solar occultation and lidar. A brief description is given of the solar occultation measurement technique used in the Stratospheric Aerosols Measurement (SAM) satellite on the Nimbus 7 satellite and the Stratopheric Aerosol and Gas Experiments (SAGE I and SAGE II) on the Applications Explorer Mission 2 and Earth Radiation Budget satellites, respectively. The general principle of lidar and differential absorption lidar (DIAL) is discussed. A few exciting examples from a recent shuttle borne lidar (the Lidar In-space Technology Experiment) are also shown in this chapter.
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Hoff, R., McCormick, P. (1997). Remote Sensing of Stratospheric Aerosols, Clouds and Gases. In: Brasseur, G.P. (eds) The Stratosphere and Its Role in the Climate System. Nato ASI Series, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03327-2_19
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