High Spectral Resolution Lidar Temperature Profiling: Progress and Challenges
Ed Eloranta and Ilya Razenkov
University of Wisconsin Madison
Researchers have long considered the possibility of deriving temperature profiles from the spectral width of the molecular lidar returns. Schwiesow and Lading(NCAR) proposed this a 1981 paper while John Hair(CSU) described actual measurements in 2001. Unfortunately, derivation of useful temperature profiles requires a level of measurement precision which is difficult to achieve and the technique has not proven practical. Improving
lidar technology warrants another look at this approach. This presentation describes progress and challenges in our effort to measure temperature profiles with the University of Wisconsin High Spectral Resolution lidar.
Seminar will be webcast at: http://www.fin.
Tuesday, 19 April 2016, 3:30 PM
Refreshments 3:15 PM
NCAR-Foothills Laboratory
3450 Mitchell Lane
Bldg 2 Main Auditorium (Rm1022)
