Monitoring aerosol distribution from ground based elastic scattering lidar: a review

Author

Spinhirne, J.D. ; Welton, E.J. ; Campbell, J.R. ; Berkoff, T.

Author_Institution

Lab. for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/912, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

2005

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

15

Abstract

The original lidars were incoherent elastic backscatter systems, and one of the original applications for such systems was profiling the vertical distribution of aerosol. In the beginning there was significant limitation in both the practicality of the lidar hardware and in using data for aerosol retrievals of significant parameters such as the aerosol extinction and backscatter cross section. The paper reviews the use of lidars for remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols.

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric techniques; backscatter; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; reviews; aerosol distribution monitoring; aerosol extinction; aerosol retrieval; aerosol vertical distribution profiling; atmospheric aerosols; backscatter cross section; elastic backscatter systems; ground based elastic scattering lidar; lidar hardware; remote sensing; Aerosols; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Backscatter; Hardware; Laser radar; Monitoring; Optical attenuators; Optical scattering; Photometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols, 2005. IEEE Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9109-8

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9110-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERSOL.2005.1494142

Filename

1494142