Lidar calibration experiments |
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Authors: | Hans E. Jørgensen Torben Mikkelsen Jürgen Streicher Hartmut Herrmann Christian Werner Erik Lyck |
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Affiliation: | Ris?National Laboratory, Dept. Meteorology and Wind Energy, P.O. Box 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, DK German Aerospace Research Establishment, DLR-Institute of Optoelectronics, D-82234 Wessling, Germany, DE National Environmental Research Institute, Dept. of Atmospheric Environment, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, DK
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Abstract: | A series of atmospheric aerosol diffusion experiments combined with lidar detection was conducted to evaluate and calibrate an existing retrieval algorithm for aerosol backscatter lidar systems. The calibration experiments made use of two (almost) identical mini-lidar systems for aerosol cloud detection to test the reproducibility and uncertainty of lidars. Lidar data were obtained from both single-ended and double-ended lidar configurations. A backstop was introduced in one of the experiments and a new method was developed where information obtained from the backstop can be used in the inversion algorithm. Independent in-situ aerosol plume concentrations were obtained from a simultaneous tracer gas experiment with SF, and comparisons with the two lidars were made. The study shows that the reproducibility of the lidars is within 15%, including measurements from both sides of a plume. The correspondence with in-situ measurements is excellent. Finally, the new backstop method is able to reveal information which can close the lidar equation by obtaining the relation between backscatter and extinction in an aerosol cloud. Received: 21 December 1995 / Revised version: 25 July 1996 |
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Keywords: | PACS:07.60 42.20 |
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