Vertical atmospheric profiles measured with lidar
Abstract
An assessment is undertaken of the feasibility of inferring vertical atmosheric profiles from vertical lidar measurements, by inverting the lidar equation with an accurately measured boundary condition at low altitude which has itself been determined by means of the lidar system in question. Routinely obtained results at 0.69 and 1.06 micron wavelengths show that useful profiles are obtainable, and multiangle measurements offer the additional possibility of checking the path-integrated extinction coefficient with the transmission losses calculated from different elevation measurements.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- July 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.22.001955
- Bibcode:
- 1983ApOpt..22.1955K
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Scattering;
- Optical Radar;
- Radar Measurement;
- Remote Sensing;
- Transmission Loss;
- Vertical Distribution;
- Atmospheric Attenuation;
- Atmospheric Optics;
- Atmospheric Sounding;
- Backscattering;
- Extinction;
- Infrared Absorption;
- Low Altitude;
- Scattering Coefficients;
- Geophysics;
- REMOTE SENSING;
- LIDAR