A 1.6 μm differential absorption Lidar (DIAL) system for measurement of vertical CO₂ mixing ratio profiles has been developed. A comparison of CO₂ vertical profiles measured by the DIAL system and an aircraft in situ sensor in January 2014 over the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) in Tsukuba, Japan, is presented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn experiment for the measurement of atmospheric CO vertical profiles up to a 7 km altitude was successfully conducted using a 1.6 μm ground-based differential absorption Lidar developed by Tokyo Metropolitan University. To achieve a high pulse repetition rate, large power output, and high frequency stabilization, we developed a new 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA study on the feasibility of using pseudorandom modulation continuous-wave (PMCW) Na lidar for mesopause-region temperature and horizontal wind measurements is presented with a number of specific geometries and associated beam-telescope overlap functions, suitable for ground-based and airborne deployments. The performance of these deployment scenarios is analyzed by scaling from the received signal and sky background and the measurement uncertainties in temperature and horizontal wind of the well-tested Colorado State University pulsed Na lidar. Using currently available high-power (~20 W) continuous-wave Na narrowband lasers, a compact PMCW bistatic Na lidar system can indeed be deployed to simultaneously measure mesopause-region temperature and horizontal winds on a 24 h continuous basis, weather permitting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe have developed a 1.6 microm carbon dioxide (CO(2)) differential absorption lidar utilizing a quasi-phase-matching optical parametric oscillator (OPO) and a photon-counting detector. The operating wavelengths were chosen based on their low interference from water vapor and low temperature sensitivity.
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