Monitoring of tropospheric clouds and precipitation with a dual-polarization scanning lidar

Gilles Roy; Luc R. Bissonnette; Gilles Vallee; Sylvain Cantin

doi:10.1117/12.406333

15 December 2000 Monitoring of tropospheric clouds and precipitation with a dual-polarization scanning lidar

Gilles Roy, Luc R. Bissonnette, Gilles Vallee, Sylvain Cantin

Proceedings Volume 4087, Applications of Photonic Technology 4; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.406333
Event: 2000 International Conference on Application of Photonic Technology (ICAPT 2000), 2000, Quebec City, Canada

Abstract

Currently, the commercial use of atmospheric lidar is limited to the measurement of cloud ceiling. However, very pertinent meteorological information (such as the structure and phase of clouds and precipitation) can be obtained by recording both polarization components of the returns while operating the lidar at a fixed repetition rate and scanning its axis at a constant angular elevation speed. We present results obtained with our dual-polarization scanning lidar system during two measurement campaigns: MWISP (Mount Washington Icing Sensors Project) in April 1999, and AIRS (Alliance Icing Research Study) in the 1999-2000 winter

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Gilles Roy, Luc R. Bissonnette, Gilles Vallee, and Sylvain Cantin "Monitoring of tropospheric clouds and precipitation with a dual-polarization scanning lidar", Proc. SPIE 4087, Applications of Photonic Technology 4, (15 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.406333

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