Aerosol layers sensing by an eye-safe lidar near the Elbrus summit
Abstract
A new generation lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) based on a diode laser with eye-safe energy density (~10 nJ cm-2) and a single photon avalanche photodiode was used for the first time, to our knowledge, to detect clouds along the Garabashi glacier near the Elbrus mountain summit. We have observed single- and multilayered clouds near the Elbrus volcano summit from the Garbashi camp located at a 4 km distance. A high signal-to-noise ratio demonstrated the potential of the remote sensing of aerosols from distances of up to 10 km.
- Publication:
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Laser Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1612-202X/ab66c4
- Bibcode:
- 2020LaPhL..17b6003P
- Keywords:
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- aerosols as indicator of volcano activity;
- eye-safe lidar;
- laser remote sensing;
- multilayer clouds detection on the Elbrus volcano