Scanning tropospheric ozone and aerosol lidar with double-gated photomultipliers Export

@article{Machol09, abstract = {The Ozone Profiling Atmospheric Lidar is a scanning four-wavelength ultraviolet differential absorption lidar that measures tropospheric ozone and aerosols. Derived profiles from the lidar data include ozone concentration, aerosol extinction, and calibrated aerosol backscatter. Aerosol calibrations assume a clear air region aloft. Other products include cloud base heights, aerosol layer heights, and scans of particulate plumes from aircraft. The aerosol data range from 280 m to 12 km with 5 m range resolution, while the ozone data ranges from 280 m to about 1.2 km with 100 m resolution. In horizontally homogeneous atmospheres, data from multiple-elevation angles is combined to reduce the minimum altitude of the aerosol and ozone profiles to about 20 m. The lidar design, the characterization of the photomultiplier tubes, ozone and aerosol analysis techniques, and sample data are described. Also discussed is a double-gating technique to shorten the gated turn-on time of the photomultiplier tubes, and thereby reduce the detection of background light and the outgoing laser pulse.}, author = {Machol, Janet L. and Marchbanks, Richard D. and Senff, Christoph J. and Mccarty, Brandi J. and Eberhard, Wynn L. and Brewer, William A. and Richter, Ronald A. and Alvarez, Ii and Law, Daniel C. and Weickmann, Ann M. and Sandberg, Scott P.}, citeulike-article-id = {3893145}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.48.000512}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?id=175782}, day = {20}, doi = {10.1364/AO.48.000512}, journal = {Appl. Opt.}, keywords = {aerosol, dial, gating, lidar, ozone, pmt, scanning}, month = {January}, number = {3}, pages = {512--524}, posted-at = {2009-01-16 23:18:01}, priority = {2}, publisher = {OSA}, title = {Scanning tropospheric ozone and aerosol lidar with double-gated photomultipliers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.48.000512}, volume = {48}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - Machol09 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3893145 N2 - The Ozone Profiling Atmospheric Lidar is a scanning four-wavelength ultraviolet differential absorption lidar that measures tropospheric ozone and aerosols. Derived profiles from the lidar data include ozone concentration, aerosol extinction, and calibrated aerosol backscatter. Aerosol calibrations assume a clear air region aloft. Other products include cloud base heights, aerosol layer heights, and scans of particulate plumes from aircraft. The aerosol data range from 280 m to 12 km with 5 m range resolution, while the ozone data ranges from 280 m to about 1.2 km with 100 m resolution. In horizontally homogeneous atmospheres, data from multiple-elevation angles is combined to reduce the minimum altitude of the aerosol and ozone profiles to about 20 m. The lidar design, the characterization of the photomultiplier tubes, ozone and aerosol analysis techniques, and sample data are described. Also discussed is a double-gating technique to shorten the gated turn-on time of the photomultiplier tubes, and thereby reduce the detection of background light and the outgoing laser pulse. IS - 3 JF - Appl. Opt. EP - 524 TI - Scanning tropospheric ozone and aerosol lidar with double-gated photomultipliers PB - OSA VL - 48 SP - 512 KW - aerosol KW - dial KW - gating KW - lidar KW - ozone KW - pmt KW - scanning AU - Machol, Janet AU - Marchbanks, Richard AU - Senff, Christoph AU - Mccarty, Brandi AU - Eberhard, Wynn AU - Brewer, William AU - Richter, Ronald AU - Alvarez, Ii AU - Law, Daniel AU - Weickmann, Ann AU - Sandberg, Scott PY - 2009/01/20/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.48.000512 ER -