Advances in Atmospheric Remote Sensing with Lidar

I Tropospheric Aerosols and Clouds.- Depolarization and Backscatter Lidar for Unattended Operation.- Micro Pulse Lidar for Aerosol and Cloud Measurement.- A Compact, Eye-Safe Lidar Based on Optical Parametric Oscillators for Remote Aerosol Sensing.- Study of the Boundary Layer Structure over the Paris Agglomeration as Observed During the ECLAP Experiment.- Aerosol Optical Properties in the Urban Mixing Layer Studied by Polarization Lidar with Meteorological Data.- Raman Lidar and Sun Photometer Measurements of Aerosols and Water Vapor.- Raman Lidar and Doppler Sodar Observations of the Nocturnal Urban Boundary Layer at Rome, Italy, During 1994 and 1995.- Atmospheric Boundary Layer Structure over the Mediterranean During a Tramontane Event: Evidence of Gravity Waves Influence.- Ship-Board Lidar Sensing of the Mixed Layer over the Sea.- Inference of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Water Vapor and Temperature Profiles over the Ocean Using Airborne Lidar Data.- Specific Features of the Aerosol Fields Vertical Structure Formation as Observed over the City of Tomsk in Summer 1995.- Assessment of the Oceanic Surface Reflectance by Airborne Lidar to Improve a Stable Inversion Technique.- Aerosol Extinction Measurements with Lidar at 10.6 and 1.5 ?m.- Comparison of Aerosol Measurements by Lidar and In Situ Methods in the Pacific Basin Troposphere.- Imaginary Refractive Index of Aerosol Derived from Simultaneous Measurements with Lidar and OPC.- Multiple-Wavelength Aerosol Lidar.- Mollifier Methods for Aerosol Size Distribution.- Construction of a Multi-wavelength Lidar System for Satellite Data Atmospheric Correction.- LOWTRAN7 Simulation of a Multi-wavelength Lidar Applied to the Atmospheric Correction of Satellite Data.- Three-Dimensional Images of Cirrus Clouds Derived from Volume Imaging Lidar Observations.- Measurements of Cirrus Cloud Optical Properties and Particle Size with the University of Wisconsin High Spectral Resolution Lidar.- Radiative Impact of Cirrus at Meso-scale Using a 1-D Radiative Transfer Model and Ground-Based Lidar, Ground-Based Radiometers, and Satellite Data.- Monitoring of Cirrus, Clouds and Planetary Boundary Layer in Southern Hemisphere at Buenos Aires (34.6 S, 58.5 W) for Climate Application.- Observation of Anomalous Raman Scattering Associated with Clouds.- Non-simultaneous Measurement of Multiple-Field-of-View Lidar Returns in Clouds: Time Correlation Lengths.- An Imaging Lidar for Multiple Scattering Measurements.- A Self-Directing Elastic Backscatter Lidar System for Debris Cloud Tracking and Characterization.- NASA DC-8 Airborne Scanning Lidar System.- PRN-cw Backscatter Lidar Measurements with a Powerful Narrowband Diode Laser.- Comparative Test of PRN-cw and µ-Joule-Pulsed Total Backscatter Lidars.- Effect of Signal Dynamics: A Comparative Study Between PRN and Pulse Illuminated LIDAR Systems.- Simulation of a Low Cost Correlation LIDAR.- Daytime Measurements of the Lower Atmosphere with a Bistatic Imaging Lidar.- Lidar Profile Deconvolution Algorithms for Some Rectangular-Like Laser Pulse Shapes.- II Lidar in Space.- The Flight of the Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE).- LITE Observations of Anthropogenically Produced Aerosols.- Observations of Saharan Dust by LITE.- LITE Measurements of Biomass Burning Aerosols and Comparisons with Correlative Airborne Lidar Measurements of Multiple Scattering in the Planetary Boundary Layer.- LITE Measurements of Aerosols in the Stratosphere and Upper Troposphere.- Retrieval of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Parameters from LITE and LASAL.- Correlative Measurements in Support of LITE Using the Airborne Backscatter LIDAR ALEX.- ESA-LITE: IROE Contribution to Ground Based LIDAR and LITE Correlative Measurements.- Southern Italy Correlative Lidar Measurements for LITE.- LITE Surface Returns: Assessment and Applications.- Calibration Methods for a Space Borne Backscatter Lidar.- Simulation and Modelling of Multiple Scattering Effects Observed in LITE Data.- Cirrus Measurements from a Spaceborne Lidar: Influence of Multiple Scattering.- Retrieval of Physical and Optical Cloud Thicknesses from Space Borne and Wide-Angle Imaging Lidar.- Relation of Power and Depolarization of Cloud Lidar Return Under Multiple Scattering to Cloud Microstructure and Stratification.- The Emissivity of Cirrus Clouds Derived from LITE and Meteosat Measurements.- Expected Cirrus Cloud Climatology Improvement Using a Spaceborne Backscatter Lidar.- Spaceborne Lidar Activities at the European Space Agency.- Space Based Atmospheric Measurements by GLAS.- Implications of New Alexandrite Ring Laser Technology for Spaceborne Lidar (Aerosol Backscatter, Water Vapor, Doppler Winds).- III Wind.- Remote Sensing of Wind and Aerosols with Airborne Scanning Coherent CO2 Doppler Laser Radar, MACAWS.- SNR-Loss Budget of the Airborne Doppler Lidar WIND.- A Compact, High Pulse Rate CO2 Doppler Lidar for Cloud, Species, and Turbulence Research.- High Resolution Doppler Lidar Measurements of Wind and Turbulence.- Spatial Monitoring of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Winds by Doppler Lidar.- Modeling and Performance of 2.0 µm Lasers Projections for Remote Wind Sensing.- Demonstration of an Adaptive, Coherent-Combining Laser Radar Receiver.- Measurement of the Refractive Index Structure Parameter Cn2in the Planetary Boundary Layer Using a Pulsed Coherent 10 µm Lidar in Direct Detection.- Turbulent Energy Dissipation Rate Measurement Using Doppler Lidar.- High Accuracy Atmospheric Wind Field Measurements with an Edge Technique Lidar.- Incoherent Doppler Lidar System Using Differential Discrimination Technique for Tropospheric Wind Measurement.- Doppler Wind Lidar in the Stratosphere: Sensitivity to High Mie Scattering and Self-Correction.- Three-Dimensional Elastic Lidar Winds.- Range Resolved, 3-D Optical Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Winds Using a C W Lidar.- IV Water Vapor.- Development of the Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE) — An Advanced Airborne DIAL Instrument.- LASE Validation Experiment.- The Airborne Water-Vapor Lidar LEANDRE II: Design, Realization, Tests and First Validations.- Advanced Airborne Water Vapor DIAL Development and Measurements.- Single-Mode All-Solid-State Water-Vapor and Temperature DIAL System.- A Water Vapor DIAL System Using Diode Pumped Nd:YAG Lasers.- Injection Seeded Optical Parametric Oscillator System for Water Vapor DIAL Measurements.- Water Vapour DIAL System Utilised for Radar Propagation Forecasting.- Proposed Compact, Eye-Safe Lidar for Measuring Atmospheric Water Vapor.- First Results of the BELINDA Approach.- Measurement of the Vertical Water Vapor Flux in the Convective Boundary Layer Using a DIAL and a Coherent Wind Lidar.- Airborne Water Vapor DIAL Estimation of Humidity Fluxes and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Parameters.- Implementation of a Turn-Key Raman Lidar for Profiling Atmospheric Water Vapor and Aerosols at the US Southern Great Plains Climate Study Site.- Comparison of Lidar-Derived Water Vapor with Other Moisture Measurements During the CAMEX-2, LASE and WMO Field Campaigns.- Rotational Raman Lidar for Remote Daytime Measurements of Tropospheric Temperature Profiles.- V Tropospheric Trace Gases and Plumes.- UV-DIAL Ozone Measurements During the 1995 Southern Oxidants Study.- Airborne Lidar Measurements of Ozone and Aerosols During PEM-West A and PEM-West B.- Ozone Measurements in the Presence of Cirrus Clouds.- Ozone Flux Profiles in the Boundary Layer Observed with an Ozone DIAL/Doppler Lidar Combination.- Ozone Flux Measurements in the Troposphere with a Shot per Shot DIAL Instrument Operated in the UV Spectral Region During the MEDCAPHOT Campaign.- Ozone Pollution Lidar and SF6 Tracer Dispersion Measurements in a Field Experiment.- RIVM Tropospheric Ozone LIDAR Routine Measurements, Validation and Analyses.- Second Generation of the IFU Stationary Tropospheric Ozone Lidar.- A Novel Mobile Vertical-Sounding System for Ozone Studies in the Lower Troposphere.- Characterization of Raman Cell-Based Transmitters for UV DIAL Applications.- A Solid State Tunable Ozone Lidar.- Advanced Airborne UV DIAL System for Stratospheric and Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosol Measurements.- The Airborne Lidar for Tropospheric Ozone (ALTO).- Comparison of Retrieval Methods in Tropospheric Ozone DIAL: The Impact of Raman Measurements.- Comparisons of Three-Wavelength Dual-DIAL with Aerosol Correction Method for DIAL.- Laser Remote Sensing of Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Toluene, Ozone, and Dust in the Industrial Area of Cubatão (Brazil).- Atmospheric Mercury Emissions from the Almadén Cinnabar Mining Area.- NO Monitoring by a Tunable Solid-State UV DIAL.- Ozone, VOC, NO2, and Aerosol Monitoring in Urban and Industrial Areas Using a Mobile DIAL System.- Calibration of a Raman-Lidar Gas Analyzer of Atmospheric Emissions from Plant Stacks Using a Remote Gas Chamber.- Large-Scale European Network of Laser Remote Sensing Facilities for Environmental and Industrial Monitoring of Toxic and Global Change Related Trace Gases (HCM Lidar Network).- New UV-Tunable Solid State Lasers for Lidar Applications.- Injection Seeding of a Flashlamp-Pumped Ti:Sapphire Laser for Lidar Applications.- Tunable Single-Mode Solid-State Lasers with a New Cavity Configuration.- A Compact, Robust, Instantaneously Tunable Harmonic Generator for Lidar Applications.- Infrared DIAL Measurements with an Injection-Seeded OPO.- Development of Infrared Lidar Systems Based on “Tracking-Free” Optical Parametric Oscillators.- Wide Bandwidth DIAL System — Analysis and Sensitivity Studies.- A Fourier Transform Lidar.- Simultaneous Range Resolved Measurements of Atmospheric Constituents and Wind Velocity by CO2 Coherent Lidar.- CO2 Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) Research at the Air Force Phillips Laboratory.- Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Imaging Lidar with Range Resolution for Vegetation Monitoring.- VI Stratospheric and Mesospheric Profiling.- A History of Aerosol Measurements at São José dos Campos, Brazil (23 S, 46 W) from 1972 to 1995.- Five Years of Lidar Observations of the Pinatubo Eruption Cloud.- Comparative Study of Stratospheric Aerosols and Ozone at Mid and High Latitudes During the Pinatubo Episode, 1991—1994.- Retrieval of Stratospheric Aerosol Physical Properties Using Multiwavelength Lidar Backscatter and Extinction Measurements.- A New Modular and Mobile Lidar System Design for Raman Lidar Application Based on a 10-Channel Filter Polychromator.- NDSC Intercomparison of Stratospheric Aerosol Processing Algorithms.- Lidar Observations of the PSCs and Stratospheric Aerosols over Eureka in Canadian Arctic.- Lidar Observations of Polar Stratospheric Clouds Above Spitsbergen.- Polar Stratospheric Cloud Measurements by Multispectral Lidar at Sodankylä in Winter 1994/95.- Airborne Lidar Observations of Ozone in the Arctic Winter 1994/95.- Measurements at the Eureka Arctic NDSC Station with a Raman DIAL System.- NDSC Lidar Intercomparisons and Validation: OPAL and MLo3 Campaigns in 1995.- RIVM Stratospheric Ozone Lidar at NDSC Station Lauder: Routine Measurements and Validation During the OPAL Campaign.- UARS Ozone and Temperature Validation by GSFC Lidar During UARS Correlative Measurement Campaigns (1992—1995).- Long Term Ozone DIAL Measurements at Hohenpeißenberg: Intercomparisons with Brewer/Mast Ozone Sondes, HALOE, SBUV and SAGE II.- Ozone Measurements at Geesthacht (53.4° N, 10.4° E) with an Advanced Raman Lidar.- Lidar Observation of Ozone and Aerosol in the Stratosphere and Troposphere over Suwon, Korea.- Lidar and Spectrophotometric Measurements of Vertical Distributions of Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide, and Temperature in the Stratosphere over Tomsk (Western Siberia).- Lidar Developments and Observations over Reunion Island (20.8° S, 55.5° E).- Climatology of Mesospheric Temperature Profiles Observed with the Consortium Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar at Logan, Utah.- Multi-dimensional Power Spectral Analysis of Structure in the Stratosphere and Mesosphere Observed by Rayleigh Scatter Lidar.- The Vertical Propagation of Gravity Waves to Lower Mesospheric Heights.- Recent Upgrades of the Colorado State Na Lidar for Wind/Temperature and Daytime Measurements.- A Novel Acousto-optic Modulation Technique for Na Wind/Temperature Lidars.- The Alexandrite Ring Laser: A Spectrally Narrow Lidar Light Source for Atmospheric Fluorescence and Absorption Observations.- Laser-Wavelength and Laser-Beam-Direction Stabilization of the ALOMAR Rayleigh/Mie/Raman Lidar.- Index of Contributors.