The ETL's transportable lower troposphere ozone lidar and its applications in air quality studies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3127, Issue , 1997, Pages 53-62

  Zhao, Yanzeng ^a,b   Marchbanks, Richard D ^a,b   Hardesty, R Michael ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NOAA/ERL/ETL   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Lidar; Ozone; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION FLUXES; CALIFORNIA; DIFFERENTIAL-ABSORPTION LIDAR (DIAL); FIELD EXPERIMENTS; HARDWARE DESIGNS; ILLINOIS; LIDAR; LOS ANGELES (LA); MOJAVE DESERT; OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; OZONE DISTRIBUTIONS; OZONE TRANSPORT; PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) SCANNING; VERTICAL PLANES; VERTICAL PROFILING;

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; APPLICATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; GASES; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

OZONE;

EID: 0006489389     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279078     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Yanzeng Zhao, James N. Howell, and R. Michael Hardesty, "Transportable Lidar for the Measurement of Ozone Concentration and Aerosol Profiles in the Lower Troposphere," A&WMA/SPIE International Symposium on Optical Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, October 11-14, 1993, Atlanta, Georgia, pp.310-320.
2. Yanzeng Zhao, R. M. Hardesty, J. E. Gaynor, " Demonstration of a New and Innovative Ozone Lidar's Capability to Measure Vertical Profiles of Ozone Concentration and Aerosol in the Lower Troposphere," Final Report to the California Air Resources Board, and the California Environmental Protection Agency, December 1994, 106 pages. The revised one has been submitted to NOAA's Technical Memorandum.
3. Yanzeng Zhao and R. Michael Hardesty, "A Multibeam Transmitter for Signal Dynamic Range Reduction in Incoherent Lidar Systems," Applied Optics, 45, 7623-7632 (1992).
4. Yanzeng Zhao, "Signal-Induced fluorescence in photomultipliers: theory and application to signal processing in differential absorption lidar systems," (in preparation)