Extremely Sensitive Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar at USU

Authors

Vincent B. Wickwar, Utah State UniversityFollow
Leda Sox, Utah State UniversityFollow
David Barton, Utah State UniversityFollow
Matthew T. Emerick, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Poster

Journal/Book Title/Conference

2014 CEDAR Workshop

Publication Date

6-22-2014

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.

Comments

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.

Recommended Citation

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.