Lidar-inversion technique for monitoring and mapping localized aerosol plumes and thin clouds

Vladimir A. Kovalev; James L. McElroy; William E. Eichinger

doi:10.1117/12.258162

12 November 1996 Lidar-inversion technique for monitoring and mapping localized aerosol plumes and thin clouds

Vladimir A. Kovalev, James L. McElroy, William E. Eichinger

Proceedings Volume 2833, Application of Lidar to Current Atmospheric Topics; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258162
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

A new lidar-inversion technique is presented for the determination of the extinction-coefficient profile within a spatially restricted zone of atmospheric aerosol inhomogeneity such as a plume, thin cloud, etc. The return lidar signal is measured through the aerosol plume under investigation and also in a direction close to but outside the plume. By using the ratio of these signals, the constituent produced by the aerosol plume is separated from the aerosol background constituent. An iterative lidar- inversion technique is applied to the ratio of these signals rather than to the original signal. This technique is shown to be relatively insensitive to the assumed value of parameters used for the extinction-profile retrieval, and yields an acceptable measurement results even when the accuracy of the assumed parameters is poor.

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Vladimir A. Kovalev, James L. McElroy, and William E. Eichinger "Lidar-inversion technique for monitoring and mapping localized aerosol plumes and thin clouds", Proc. SPIE 2833, Application of Lidar to Current Atmospheric Topics, (12 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258162

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