Progress towards an Autonomous Field Deployable Diode-Laser-Based Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) for Profiling Water Vapor in the Lower Troposphere

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6241-6259

  Repasky, Kevin S ^a   Moen, Ew ^a   Spuler, Scott ^b   Nehrir, Amin R ^c   Carlsten, John L ^d  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dial; Ground based lidar; Trace gas sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; AVALANCHE PHOTO DIODE (APD); DIAL; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS; GROUND-BASED LIDARS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; TRACE-GAS SENSING; WATER-VAPOR ABSORPTION;

DBR LASERS; OPTICAL RADAR; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 84891384191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5126241     Document Type: Article

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