Cloud top remote sensing by airborne lidar
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 21 (9), 1564-1571
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.21.001564
Abstract
Observations of cloud top height, backscattering, and signal depolarization have been obtained by a lidar system operating onboard a high-altitude research aircraft. The transmitter for the cloud lidar system is a doubled Nd:YAG laser operating at 5 Hz. The system functions as a fully automated sensor under microprocessor control and operates from a nominal 19-km altitude. Measurements have been acquired over a wide variety of cloud cover in conjunction with passive visible and infrared measurements. Initial observation results are reported.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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