Abstract: The NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) has two coherent Doppler lidar systems that have been deployed on board research vessels to obtain data during several experiments. The instruments measure the wind velocity ...

Abstract: AbstractWe present the motivation, instrument concept, hardware descriptions, and initial validation testing for a Doppler wind lidar (DWL) system that uses optical autocovariance (OA) in a field-widened quadrature ...

Abstract: The concept of boundary layer mixing height for meteorology and air quality applications using lidar data is reviewed, and new algorithms for estimation of mixing heights from various types of lower-tropospheric coherent ...

Abstract: Quantitative data on turbulence variables aloft?above the region of the atmosphere conveniently measured from towers?have been an important but difficult measurement need for advancing understanding and modeling of the ...