Atmospheric Temperature Profile Measurements Using Mobile High Spectral Resolution Lidar

High Spectral Resolution Lidar

Standard lidar systems provide profiles of the attenuated backscatter signal. These can be assembled into images with spatial and temporal resolution adequate for practically all problems of atmospheric research. However, the attenuated backscatter signal is a quantity that is composed of different atmospheric properties. Extremely valuable for an assessment of the state of the atmosphere, they...

Aerosol classification using airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar measurements – methodology and examples

The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) on the NASA B200 aircraft has acquired extensive datasets of aerosol extinction (532 nm), aerosol optical depth (AOD) (532 nm), backscatter (532 and 1064 nm), and depolarization (532 and 1064 nm) profiles during 18 field missions that have been conducted over North America since 2006. The lidar measurements o...

Airborne high spectral resolution lidar observations

S. Groß, M. Esselborn, B. Weinzierl, M. Wirth, A. Fix, and A. Petzold Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Weßling, Germany now at: European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany now at: Institut für Energieund Klimaforschung IEK-8: Troposphäre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, G...

Temperature Measurements with Lidar

Temperature is a key parameter of the state of the atmosphere. Temperature data play an important role in such fields as atmospheric dynamics, climatology, meteorology, and chemistry, to name just a few. In addition to these direct geophysical applications, the atmospheric temperature profile is necessary as an input parameter to many remote-sensing techniques including lidar for the determinat...

Road surface texture inspection using high resolution transverse profile measurements