Development and application of a compact, tunable, solid-state airborne lidar system for boundary layer profiling

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1258-1272

  Alvarez, II ^a   Senff, C J ^a,b   Langford, A O ^a   Weickmann, A M ^a,b   Law, D C ^a   Machol, J L ^a,b,c,d   Merritt, D A ^a,e   Marchbanks, R D ^a,b   Sandberg, S P ^a   Brewer, W A ^a   Hardesty, R M ^a   Banta, R M ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Air quality; Aircraft observations; Instrumentation sensors; Lidars Lidar observations; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ADVANCED ANALYSIS; AIRBORNE LIDAR SYSTEMS; AIRCRAFT FLYING; AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ALUMINUM FLUORIDE; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS; BACKSCATTER PROFILES; CALIFORNIA; CE:LICAF; ERROR SOURCES; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FIELD OPERATION; FREE TROPOSPHERE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTATION/SENSORS; LIDARS/LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; OPTICAL PROFILER; OZONE CONCENTRATION; OZONE SONDES; PARTS PER BILLION; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; UV LASERS;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LITHIUM; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; REMOTE SENSING; TOPAZ; TROPOSPHERE; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE SENSING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIDAR; NOAA SATELLITE; OZONESONDE; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 82955240566     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05044.1     Document Type: Article

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