2007 Workshop:CEDAR Lidar technology workshop
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Introduction
Resonance and Rayleigh lidars have the unique capability to provide high-resolution, range-resolved measurements of fundamental atmospheric parameters in the middle and upper atmosphere. These lidar measurements have made great scientific contributions to the CEDAR and Aeronomy community on dynamics, structure, composition, chemistry, microphysics, inter-hemispheric difference, and global trend, etc. Supported by NSF, a Consortium of Resonance and Rayleigh Lidars (CRRL) has been established in August 2006, and a lidar Consortium Technology Center (CTC) within CRRL is being developed in Boulder, Colorado. Through collective effort of CRRL and CEDAR community, our goals are to ensure each lidar group reaching the highest technology potential with maximum science return, to advance lidar technology to the next generation and extended measurement range, to reach out to the CEDAR community to increase the usage of lidars and lidar data, and to train next-generation lidar researchers.
This workshop will focus on the CEDAR lidar technology. It will provide an overview of the current status of wind and temperature lidar technology and measurement capability, present the recent technology improvements for transmitter and receiver, and explore the new technology for extending lidar detection to the thermosphere and for measuring wind and temperature from ground to the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. We will also discuss the CRRL web page and the proposed lidar school.
A brief outline follows:
- Current status of wind and temperature lidar technology and measurement capability
- Technology improvement for Na and K Doppler lidars
- Exploration for extending lidar measurement capability
- CRRL lidar web page and proposed CEDAR lidar school.
Chairs and Presenters
Presenters
Time and Location
Tuesday, 13:00 - 15:00 in Zia
Presentation Materials
Images, power point, pdf
