The Gulfstream V High Spectral Resolution Lidar (GV-HSRL) is an eye-safe calibrated lidar system that measures cloud and aerosol back scatter coefficient and depolarization ratio.  It can also measure cloud extinction and optical depth.

The instrument was originally designed and built by the University of Wisconsin Lidar Group. The instrument had successful test flights on the NSF/NCAR GV in Feb 2010 and was delivered to NCAR in the summer of 2010. The instrument had its first field deployment on the NSF/NCAR GV in TORERO in January and February 2012 and has been deployd in two additional aircraft field projects since then (CSET and SOCRATES). When not deployed in field on the GV aircraft the instument operates from the lidar lab or lidar seatainer in Boulder Colorado.