Abstract: Comparisons between measurements of a wind component by a Doppler lidar and by a conventional anemometer are presented. The two measurement techniques provided thirteen 15 min data sets which agreed within 0.04 m s?1 on ...

Abstract: During January and February 1987, the NOAA/WPL pulsed Doppler lidar was deployed in the foothills west of Boulder, Colorado, to study orographically induced flows over the Continental Divide. On 29 January 1987, the lidar, ...

Abstract: The observed depolarization of polarized lidar signals scattered from virga and a source cloud may be interpreted to show that the source cloud is largely glaciated, and the virga is composed of ice crystals not randomly ...

Abstract: Using an airborne lidar, we have measured atmospheric aerosol backscatter coefficients (differential backscatter cross section per unit volume) for 10.6 ?m wavelength laser radiation as a function of height to 5200 m for ...

Abstract: To demonstrate the usefulness of active remote-sensing systems in observing forest fire plume behavior, we studied two fires, one using a 3.2-cm-wavelength Doppler radar, and one more extensively, using Doppler lidar. Both ...