Lidar measurements to describe the electrooptical environment and atmospheric properties
Document ID: 305
Philbrick, C. Russell1
Balsiger, Franz1
Stevens, Timothy D.1
1 The Pennsylvania State University, ARL/PSU LIDAR Laboratory, University Park, PA, U.S.A.
Presented: The 19th Annual Conference on Atmospheric Transmission Models, June 4-6, 1996
Abstract
Scattering of visible, ultraviolet and infrared radiation by atmospheric particles has a major impact on commercial air traffic and on many military systems. lt has become critically important, with many modern systems, that the electro-optical environment be properly characterized.
Most of the past applications of lidar to describe the electro-optical environment have failed to provide satisfactory results because the techniques have generally focused on measurement of the backscattered radiation at the transmitted wavelength. We have shown that molecular scattering from rotational and vibrational Raman backscatter can be used to directly determine the extinction profile through optical scattering regions containing aerosols and cloud layers.
Notes
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Atmospheric Transmission Models, 4-6 June 1996, Author(s) : Anderson, Gail P. ; Picard, Richard H.; Chetwynd, James H. ; Rothman, Laurence S., Accession Number : ADA328230
Keywords: atmospheric models, aerosols, clouds, radiative transfer, laser, transmittance, wave propagation
| Citation: | "Lidar measurements to describe the electrooptical environment and atmospheric properties", Philbrick, C. R., F. Balsiger, T. D. Stevens, Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Atmospheric Transmission Models, 4-6 June 1996, U.S. Air Force, May 1997, pp. 41 - 41, PL-TR-97-2069, Environmental Research Papers, No. 1206 |