Spaceborne profiling of atmospheric temperature and particle extinction with pure rotational Raman lidar and of relative humidity in combination with differential absorption lidar: performance simulations
Applied Optics, Vol. 45, Issue 11, pp. 2474-2494 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.45.002474
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Abstract
The performance of a spaceborne temperature lidar based on the pure rotational Raman (RR) technique in the UV has been simulated. Results show that such a system deployed onboard a low-Earth-orbit satellite would provide global-scale clear-sky temperature measurements in the troposphere and lower stratosphere with precisions that satisfy World Meteorological Organization (WMO) threshold observational requirements for numerical weather prediction and climate research applications. Furthermore, nighttime temperature measurements would still be within the WMO threshold observational requirements in the presence of several cloud structures. The performance of aerosol extinction measurements from space, which can be carried out simultaneously with temperature measurements by RR lidar, is also assessed. Furthermore, we discuss simulations of relative humidity measurements from space obtained from RR temperature measurements and water-vapor data measured with the differential absorption lidar (DIAL) technique.
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OCIS Codes
(010.1310) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric scattering
(120.0120) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology
(280.3640) Remote sensing and sensors : Lidar
History
Original Manuscript: August 17, 2005
Revised Manuscript: November 15, 2005
Manuscript Accepted: November 16, 2005
Citation
Paolo Di Girolamo, Andreas Behrendt, and Volker Wulfmeyer, "Spaceborne profiling of atmospheric temperature and particle extinction with pure rotational Raman lidar and of relative humidity in combination with differential absorption lidar: performance simulations," Appl. Opt. 45, 2474-2494 (2006)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-45-11-2474
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