Lidar calibration experiments

Hans Ejsing Jørgensen, T. Mikkelsen, J. Streicher, H. Herrmann, C. Werner, E. Lyck

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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 SF6, 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.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalApplied Physics B-Lasers and Optics
    Volume64
    Issue number3
    Pages (from-to)355-361
    ISSN0946-2171
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1997

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