A new mobile and portable scanning lidar for profiling the lower troposphere

Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 35-44

  Chiang, C W ^a,c   Das, S K ^b,c   Chiang, H W ^a   Nee, J B ^c   Sun, S H ^a   Chen, S W ^d   Lin, P H ^d   Chu, J C ^d   Su, C S ^d   Su, L S ^e  

^a KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Taoyuan County Government Environment Protection Bureau   (Taiwan)

^e EI LIDAR Corporation Limited   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA ACQUISITION; LASER BEAMS; POLLUTION; SCANNING;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; HIGH SPEED DATA ACQUISITION; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER;

OPTICAL RADAR;

CLEAR SKY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA QUALITY; LIDAR; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REAL TIME; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84941569029     PISSN: 21930856     EISSN: 21930864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gi-4-35-2015     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Ansmann, A., Bösenberg, J., Chaikovsky, A., Comerón, A., Eckhardt, S., Eixmann, R, Freudenthaler, A., Ginoux, P., Komguem, L., Linné, H., Márquez, M. A. L., Matthias, V., Mattis, I., Mitev, V., Müller, D., Music, S., Nickovic, S., Pelon, J., Sauvage, L., Sobolewsky, P., Srivastava, M. K., Stoh, A., Torres, O., Vaughan, G., Wandinger, U., and Wiegner, M.: Long-range transport of Saharan dust to northern Europe: The 11-16 October 2001 outbreak observed with EARLINET, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4783, doi:10.1029/2003JD003757, 2003.
2. Bach, W.: Global air pollution and climatic change, Rev. Geophys., 14, 429-474, 1976.
3. Behrendt, A., Wulfmeyer, V., Riede, A., Wagner, G., Pal, S., Bauer, H., Radlach, M., and Spath, F.: 3-Dimensional observations of atmospheric humidity with a scanning differential absorption lidar, Proc. SPIE, 7475, 74750L, doi:10.1117/12.835143, 2009.
4. Behrendt, A., Pal, S., Wulfmeyer, V., Valdebenito, B. A. M., and Lammel, G.: A novel approach for the characterization of transport and optical properties of aerosol particles near sources-Part I: Measurement of particle backscatter coefficient maps with a scanning UV lidar, Atmos. Environ., 45, 2795-2802, 2011.
5. Campbell, J. R., Hlavka, D. L., Welton, E. J., Flynn, C. J., Turner, D. D., Spinhirne, J. D., Scott, V. S., and Hwang, I. H.: Full-time, eye-safe cloud and aerosol lidar observation at atmospheric radi-ation measurement program sites: Instruments and data processing, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 19, 431-442, 2002.
6. Chen, W. N., Chiang, C. W., and Nee, J. B.: Lidar ratio and depolarization ratio for cirrus clouds, Appl. Optics, 41, 6470-6476, 2002.
7. Chen, W. N., Tsao, C. C., and Nee, J. B.: Rayleigh Lidar Temperature Measurements in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phy., 66, 39-49, 2004.
8. Chiang, C. W., Chen, W. N., Liang, W. A., and Nee, J. B.: Lidar Measurements of Spring Dusts in 2002 at Chung-Li (25-N, 121-E), Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 15, 813-824, 2004.
9. Chiang, C. W., Chen, W. N., Liang, W. A., Das, S. K., and Nee, J. B.: Optical properties of tropospheric aerosols based on measurements of lidar, sunphotometer, and visibility at Chung-Li (25.1-N, 121.1-E), Atmos. Environ., 41, 4128-4137, 2007.
10. Chiang, C. W., Das, S. K., and Nee, J. B.: An iterative calculation to derive extinction-to-backscatter ratio based on lidar extinction measurement, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Ra., 109, 1187-1195, 2008a.
11. Chiang, C.W., Das, S. K., and Nee, J. B.: Lidar depolarization measurements for aerosol source and property studies over Chungli (24.58-N, 121.1-E), Atmos. Res., 90, 203-210, 2008b.
12. Chiang, C. W., Das, S. K., Nee, J. B., Hu, S. X., and Hu, H. L.: Simultaneous measurement of humidity and temperature in the lower troposphere over Chung-Li, Taiwan, J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phy., 71, 1389-1396, 2009.
13. Chiang, C.W., Das, S. K., Lin, C. Y., Nee, J. B., Sun, S. H., Chiang, H. W., Yu, M. J., and Zhang, S. T.: Multi-year investigations of aerosol layer using lidar measurements at Chung-Li, Taiwan, J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phy., 89, 40-47, 2012.
14. Das, S. K., Chiang, C. W., and Nee, J.-B.: Characteristics of cirrus cloud and its radiative properties based on lidar observation Chung-Li, Taiwan, Atmos. Res., 93, 723-735, 2009.
15. Eichinger, W. E., Cooper, D. I., Forman, P. R., Griegos, J., Osborn, M. A., Richter, D., Tellier, L. L., and Thornton, R.: The development of a scanning Raman water vapor lidar for boundary layer and tropospheric observations, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 16, 1753-1766, 1999.
16. Fredriksson, K., Galle, B., Nystrom, K., and Svanberg, S.: Mobile LIDAR system for environmental probing, Appl. Optics, 20, 4181-4189, 1981.
17. Fukuchi, T., Goto, N., Fujii, T., and Nemoto, K.: Error analysis of SO2 measurement by multiwavelength differential absorption lidar, Opt. Eng., 38, 141-145, doi:10.1117/1.602068, 1999.
18. Gimmestad, G. G.: Differential-absorption lidar for ozone and industrial emissions, in: Lidar-Range-resolved optical remote sensing of the atmosphere, edited by: Weitkamp, C., Springer, New York, 187-212, 2005.
19. Kaufman, Y. J., Tanre, D., and Boucher, O.: A satellite view of aerosols in the climate system, Nature, 419, 215-224, 2002.
20. Mattis, I., Ansmann, A., Müller, D., Wandinger, U., and Althausen, D.: Multiyear aerosol observations with dual-wavelength Raman lidar in the framework of EARLINET, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D13203, doi:10.1029/2004JD004600, 2004.
21. Mayor, S. and Spuler, S.: Raman-shifted eye-safe aerosol lidar, Appl. Optics, 43, 3915-3924, 2004.
22. McGill, M. J., Hlavka, D. L., Hart,W. D., Spinhirne, J. D., Scott, V. S., and Schmid, B.: The Cloud Physics Lidar: Instrument description and initial measurement results, Appl. Optics, 41, 3725-3734, 2002.
23. Murayama, T., Sugimoto, N., Uno, I., Kinoshita, K., Aoki, K., Hagiwara, N., Liu, Z., Matsui, I., Sakai, T., Shibata, T., Arao, K., Sohn, B. J.,Won, J. G., Yoon, S. C., Li, T., Zhou, J., Hu, H., Abo, M., Iokibe, K., Koga, R., and Iwasaka, Y.: Ground-based network observation of Asian dust events of April 1998 in east Asia, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 18345-18359, doi:10.1029/2000JD900554, 2001.
24. Nee, J., Wang, G., Lee, P., and Lin, S.: Lidar studies of particles and temperatures of the atmosphere: First results from National Central University lidar, Radio Sci., 30, 1167-1175, 1995.
25. Nee, J. B., Len, C. N., Chen, W. N., and Lin, C. T. : Lidar observation of the cirrus cloud in the tropopause at Chung-Li (25-N, 121-E), J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 2249-2257, 1998.
26. Povey, A. C., Grainger, R. G., Peters, D. M., Agnew, J. L., and Rees, D.: Estimation of a lidar's overlap function and its calibration by nonlinear regression, Appl. Optics, 51, 5130-5143, 2012.
27. Pratt, R.W.: Review of radiosonde humidity and temperature errors, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 2, 404-407, 1985.
28. Radlach, M., Behrendt, A., and Wulfmeyer, V.: Scanning rotational Raman lidar at 355 nm for the measurement of tropospheric temperature fields, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 159-169, doi:10.5194/acp-8-159-2008, 2008.
29. Sasano, Y.: Observational study on the atmospheric mixed layer and transition layer structures using a Mie lidar, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 63, 419-435, 1985.
30. Sasano, Y., Shimizu, H., Takeuchi, N., and Okuda, M.: Geometricalform factor in the laser radar equation: An experimental determination, Appl. Optics, 18, 3908-3910, 1979.
31. Schotland, R. M.: Errors in the lidar measurement of atmospheric gases by differential absorption, J. Appl. Meteorol., 13, 71-77, 1974.
32. Twomey, S. A.: Aerosols, clouds and radiation, Atmos. Environ., 25, 2435-2442, 1991.
33. Vandaele, A. C., Simon, P. C., Guilmot, J. M., Carleer, M., and Colin, R.: SO2 absorption cross section measurement in the UV using a Fourier transform spectrometer, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 25599-25605, 1994.