Abstract

A high spectral resolution (HSR) measurement capability in the ultraviolet has been added to the 3-wavelength-2-polarization-backscatter lidar LNG (lidar aerosols nouvelle génération) and tested during several flights. The system includes a Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) as a spectral discriminator and does not require any frequency locking between the emitter and the interferometer. Results obtained during test flights show that the backscatter and extinction coefficients at 355 nm can be measured with a relative precision of 10% for 60 m and 240 m vertical resolution, respectively, in aerosol layers of ${10}^{-6}{\mathrm{m}}^{-1}{\mathrm{sr}}^{-1}$ backscatter coefficient with a 30-km horizontal resolution. The same relative precision is obtained in cirrus clouds of a $2\times {10}^{-5}{\mathrm{m}}^{-1}{\mathrm{sr}}^{-1}$ backscatter coefficient for the same vertical resolution and a horizontal resolution reduced to 5 km. The capacity of the system to perform wind velocity measurements is also demonstrated with precisions in the range of 1 to $2{\mathrm{ms}}^{-1}$. Particle-to-total backscatter ratio and line-of-sight speed measurements have been performed on ground echoes; averaged data show biases less than 1% and $0.15{\mathrm{ms}}^{-1}$, respectively.

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