Airborne lidar investigations of ozone and aerosols in the nonurban troposphere
Abstract
A description is presented of the first application of an airborne optical radar (lidar) to measurements of ozone and aerosol profiles in regional and global tropospheric investigations. It is pointed out that high spatial resolution measurements of ozone and aerosols are important in studying the relative contribution of chemistry and transport in large scale atmospheric processes. The investigation makes use of an airborne differential absorption optical radar system, which has been developed for the remote profiling of O3 and aerosols in the troposphere. Attention is given to lower tropospheric measurements and upper tropospheric measurements. The obtained results demonstrate the capability of the considered system to measure O3 and aerosol profiles in the troposphere and lower stratosphere.
- Publication:
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American Meteorological Society
- Pub Date:
- May 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982ams..symp.....B
- Keywords:
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- Aerosols;
- Airborne Equipment;
- Atmospheric Composition;
- Optical Radar;
- Ozone;
- Troposphere;
- Atmospheric Boundary Layer;
- Atmospheric Chemistry;
- Atmospheric Sounding;
- Pollution Transport;
- Spatial Resolution;
- Geophysics