CSIR-NLC Mobile LIDAR - First Scientific Result

First Scientific Result

Laser radar, more popularly known as LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) uses electromagnetic radiation at optical frequencies. LIDAR has become an excellent tool for monitoring the atmosphere in a relatively short period of time (a few seconds to minutes). Currently, LIDAR systems are used for studying the atmospheric structure and dynamics, trace constituents, aerosols, clouds, boundary and m...

CSIR – NLC Mobile LIDAR for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

Retrieval of atmospheric boundary layer height by CSIRNLC mobile lidar, pretoria (25.5° S; 28.2° E), South Africa

In this paper, we present the preliminary methods for detection of the boundary layer based on backscattered signals from a mobile LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) developed at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) National Laser Centre (NLC), Pretoria (25.5o S; 28.2o E), South Africa. We have concentrated on two different methods, such as (a) statistical and (b) slope. The p...

NLCs at Svalbard by lidar

In summer 2001 a potassium lidar was installed near Longyearbyen (78 • N) on the north polar island of Spitsbergen which is part of the archipelago Svalbard. At the same place a series of meteorological rockets (" falling spheres " , FS) were launched which gave temperatures from the lower thermosphere to the stratosphere. The potassium 5 lidar is capable of detecting noctilucent clouds (NLCs) ...

First observations of noctilucent clouds by lidar at Svalbard, 78 N

In summer 2001 a potassium lidar was installed near Longyearbyen (78 N) on the north polar island of Spitsbergen which is part of the archipelago Svalbard. At the same place a series of meteorological rockets (“falling spheres”, FS) were launched which gave temperatures from the lower thermosphere to the stratosphere. The potassium lidar is capable of detecting noctilucent clouds (NLCs) and of ...