The ALOMAR Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar: objectives, configuration, and performance
International audience We report on the development and current capabilities of the ALOMAR Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar. This instrument is one of the core instruments of the international ALOMAR facility, located near Andenes in Norway at 69°N and 16°E. The major task of the instrument is to perform ad...
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:hal-00329143v1 2023-11-12T04:01:04+01:00 The ALOMAR Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar: objectives, configuration, and performance von Zahn, U. von Cossart, G. Fiedler, J. Fricke, K. H. Nelke, G. Baumgarten, G. Rees, D. Hauchecorne, Alain Adolfsen, K. Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik (IAP) Universität Rostock-Leibniz Association Physikalisches Institut Bonn Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Hovemere Ltd. Service d'aéronomie (SA) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Andøya Rocket Range 2000 https://hal.science/hal-00329143 https://hal.science/hal-00329143/document https://hal.science/hal-00329143/file/angeo-18-815-2000.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-000-0815-2 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00585-000-0815-2 hal-00329143 https://hal.science/hal-00329143 https://hal.science/hal-00329143/document https://hal.science/hal-00329143/file/angeo-18-815-2000.pdf doi:10.1007/s00585-000-0815-2 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0992-7689 EISSN: 1432-0576 Annales Geophysicae https://hal.science/hal-00329143 Annales Geophysicae, 2000, 18 (7), pp.815-833. ⟨10.1007/s00585-000-0815-2⟩ [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2000 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-000-0815-2 2023-10-25T16:24:33Z International audience We report on the development and current capabilities of the ALOMAR Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar. This instrument is one of the core instruments of the international ALOMAR facility, located near Andenes in Norway at 69°N and 16°E. The major task of the instrument is to perform advanced studies of the Arctic middle atmosphere over altitudes between about 15 to 90 km on a climatological basis. These studies address questions about the thermal structure of the Arctic middle atmosphere, the dynamical processes acting therein, and of aerosols in the form of stratospheric background aerosol, polar stratospheric clouds, noctilucent clouds, and injected aerosols of volcanic or anthropogenic origin. Furthermore, the lidar is meant to work together with other remote sensing instruments, both ground- and satellite-based, and with balloon- and rocket-borne instruments performing in situ observations. The instrument is basically a twin lidar, using two independent power lasers and two tiltable receiving telescopes. The power lasers are Nd:YAG lasers emitting at wavelengths 1064, 532, and 355 nm and producing 30 pulses per second each. The power lasers are highly stabilized in both their wavelengths and the directions of their laser beams. The laser beams are emitted into the atmosphere fully coaxial with the line-of-sight of the receiving telescopes. The latter use primary mirrors of 1.8 m diameter and are tiltable within 30° off zenith. Their fields-of-view have 180 µrad angular diameter. Spectral separation, filtering, and detection of the received photons are made on an optical bench which carries, among a multitude of other optical components, three double Fabry-Perot interferometers (two for 532 and one for 355 nm) and one single Fabry-Perot interferometer (for 1064 nm). A number of separate detector channels also allow registration of photons which are produced by rotational-vibrational and rotational Raman scatter on N 2 and N 2 +O 2 molecules, respectively. Currently, up to 36 detector channels ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Andenes Arctic Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Alomar ENVELOPE(-67.083,-67.083,-68.133,-68.133) Arctic Norway Annales Geophysicae 18 7 815 833 |
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International audience We report on the development and current capabilities of the ALOMAR Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar. This instrument is one of the core instruments of the international ALOMAR facility, located near Andenes in Norway at 69°N and 16°E. The major task of the instrument is to perform advanced studies of the Arctic middle atmosphere over altitudes between about 15 to 90 km on a climatological basis. These studies address questions about the thermal structure of the Arctic middle atmosphere, the dynamical processes acting therein, and of aerosols in the form of stratospheric background aerosol, polar stratospheric clouds, noctilucent clouds, and injected aerosols of volcanic or anthropogenic origin. Furthermore, the lidar is meant to work together with other remote sensing instruments, both ground- and satellite-based, and with balloon- and rocket-borne instruments performing in situ observations. The instrument is basically a twin lidar, using two independent power lasers and two tiltable receiving telescopes. The power lasers are Nd:YAG lasers emitting at wavelengths 1064, 532, and 355 nm and producing 30 pulses per second each. The power lasers are highly stabilized in both their wavelengths and the directions of their laser beams. The laser beams are emitted into the atmosphere fully coaxial with the line-of-sight of the receiving telescopes. The latter use primary mirrors of 1.8 m diameter and are tiltable within 30° off zenith. Their fields-of-view have 180 µrad angular diameter. Spectral separation, filtering, and detection of the received photons are made on an optical bench which carries, among a multitude of other optical components, three double Fabry-Perot interferometers (two for 532 and one for 355 nm) and one single Fabry-Perot interferometer (for 1064 nm). A number of separate detector channels also allow registration of photons which are produced by rotational-vibrational and rotational Raman scatter on N 2 and N 2 +O 2 molecules, respectively. Currently, up to 36 detector channels ... |
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The ALOMAR Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar: objectives, configuration, and performance |
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The ALOMAR Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar: objectives, configuration, and performance |
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The ALOMAR Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar: objectives, configuration, and performance |
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