Raman Lidar Observations of Cloud Liquid Water Export

@article{citeulike:6081597, abstract = {We report the design and the performances of a Raman lidar for long-term monitoring of tropospheric aerosol backscattering and extinction coefficients, water vapor mixing ratio, and cloud liquid water. We focus on the system's capabilities of detecting Raman backscattering from cloud liquid water. After describing the system components, along with the current limitations and options for improvement, we report examples of observations in the case of low-level cumulus clouds. The measurements of the cloud liquid water content, as well as the estimations of the cloud droplet effective radii and number densities, obtained by combining the extinction coefficient and cloud water content within the clouds, are critically discussed.}, author = {Rizi, Vincenzo and Iarlori, Marco and Rocci, Giuseppe and Visconti, Guido}, citeulike-article-id = {6081597}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.43.006440}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?id=81932}, day = {10}, doi = {10.1364/AO.43.006440}, journal = {Appl. Opt.}, keywords = {lidar, raman, water\_vapor}, month = {December}, number = {35}, pages = {6440--6453}, posted-at = {2009-11-06 21:46:29}, priority = {2}, publisher = {OSA}, title = {Raman Lidar Observations of Cloud Liquid Water}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.43.006440}, volume = {43}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6081597 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6081597 N2 - We report the design and the performances of a Raman lidar for long-term monitoring of tropospheric aerosol backscattering and extinction coefficients, water vapor mixing ratio, and cloud liquid water. We focus on the system’s capabilities of detecting Raman backscattering from cloud liquid water. After describing the system components, along with the current limitations and options for improvement, we report examples of observations in the case of low-level cumulus clouds. The measurements of the cloud liquid water content, as well as the estimations of the cloud droplet effective radii and number densities, obtained by combining the extinction coefficient and cloud water content within the clouds, are critically discussed. IS - 35 JF - Appl. Opt. EP - 6453 TI - Raman Lidar Observations of Cloud Liquid Water PB - OSA VL - 43 SP - 6440 KW - lidar KW - raman KW - water_vapor AU - Rizi, Vincenzo AU - Iarlori, Marco AU - Rocci, Giuseppe AU - Visconti, Guido PY - 2004/12/10/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.43.006440 ER -