Combined Raman lidar for aerosol, ozone, and moisture measurements

Jens Reichardt; Ulla Wandinger; Marcus Serwazi; Klaus C. H. Weitkamp

doi:10.1117/1.600681

1 May 1996 Combined Raman lidar for aerosol, ozone, and moisture measurements

Jens Reichardt, Ulla Wandinger, Marcus Serwazi, Klaus C. H. Weitkamp

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 35, Issue 5, (May 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.600681

A combined Raman elastic-backscatter lidar for tropospheric profiling of moisture, ozone, and aerosols and stratospheric profiling of ozone, aerosols, and temperature is presented. A XeCl excimer and a frequency-tripled Nd:YAG laser serve as light sources. An eight-channel interference-filter polychromator is used as the receiver. Water vapor, particle extinction and backscatter coefficients, and the particle lidar ratio are determined by the use of the Raman-lidar technique. For depolarization studies the parallel- and cross-polarized components of the 355-nm elastic-backscatter signal are detected. Ozone can be derived from the Raman nitrogen channels as well as from the elastic-backscatter channels by applying the Raman-DIAL and the DIAL technique, respectively. The temperature is obtained from the Raman and Rayleigh signals in the particle-free stratosphere. The apparatus is described in detail. Measurement examples showing the capabilities of the new system are given.

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Jens Reichardt, Ulla Wandinger, Marcus Serwazi, and Klaus C. H. Weitkamp "Combined Raman lidar for aerosol, ozone, and moisture measurements," Optical Engineering 35(5), (1 May 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.600681

Published: 1 May 1996

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