Article
Extremely Sensitive Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar at USU
2014 CEDAR Workshop
Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
6-22-2014
Disciplines
Abstract
Rayleigh lidar opened a portion of the atmosphere, from 30 to 90 km, to ground-based observations. Rayleigh-scatter observations were made at the Atmospheric Lidar Observatory (ALO) at Utah State University (USU) from 1993–2004 between 45 and 90 km, creating a very dense data set consisting of ~5000 hours of observations carried out over ~900 nights. The lidar had a mirror of area 0.15 m2 and a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser operating at 532 nm at 30 Hz at ~21 W, giving a power-aperture product (PAP) of ~3.1 Wm2.
Citation Information
Wickwar, V., Sox, L., Barton, D., Herron, J., & Emerick, M. (2014, June 22). Extremely Sensitive Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar at USU. Presented at the 2014 CEDAR Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Poster presented at the 2014 CEDAR workshop at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA in June, 2014. PDF of poster is available for download through link.