Abstract: A method for developing and constructing a cloud cover indicator system is described. The method involves pointing an IR radiometer vertically downward to a movable mirror and measuring the reflected sky radiation by ...

Abstract: The results of a theoretical and experimental study of the feasibility of the turbulent energy dissipation rate ?T measurements with a continuous wave (CW) CO2 Doppler lidar in the atmospheric boundary layer are presented. ...

Abstract: The airborne Wind Infrared Doppler Lidar (WIND) has been developed through French?German cooperation. The system is based on a pulsed 10.6-?m laser transmitter, a heterodyne receiver, and a conical scanning device. To the ...

Abstract: Doppler lidars measure the range-resolved line-of-sight wind component by extracting the Doppler shift of radiation backscattered from atmospheric aerosols and molecules. A virtual instrument was developed to simulate wind ...

Abstract: The three-dimensional structure and dynamics of the combination of the sea breeze and the mistral at the Rhône Valley exit, in southeastern France, have been investigated experimentally and numerically on 22 June 2001. The ...