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Transmittance ratio constrained retrieval technique for lidar cirrus measurements |
Optics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 9, pp. 1595-1597 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.001595
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Abstract
This letter describes a lidar retrieval technique that uses the transmittance ratio as a constraint to determine an average lidar ratio as well as extinction and backscatter coefficients of transparent cirrus clouds. The cloud transmittance ratio is directly obtained from two adjacent elastic lidar backscatter signals. The technique can be applied to cirrus measurements where neither the molecular scattering dominant signals above and below the cloud layer are found nor cloudfree reference profiles are available. The technique has been tested with simulated lidar signals and applied to backscatter lidar measurements at Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia.
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OCIS Codes
(010.0010) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric and oceanic optics
(010.3640) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Lidar
(280.3640) Remote sensing and sensors : Lidar
ToC Category:
Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics
History
Original Manuscript: January 25, 2012
Revised Manuscript: February 20, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: February 20, 2012
Published: May 2, 2012
Citation
Jia Su, M. Patrick McCormick, Zhaoyan Liu, Robert B. Lee, Kevin R. Leavor, and Liqiao Lei, "Transmittance ratio constrained retrieval technique for lidar cirrus measurements," Opt. Lett. 37, 1595-1597 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-37-9-1595
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