Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Instruments
| Abbreviation | Full Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
Currently Operational | |||
| DABUL | Depolarization and Backscatter Unattended Lidar | Lidar to monitor and study the radiative effects of aerosols and thin clouds in the upper troposphere | |
| FLOE | Fish Lidar, Oceanic, Experimental | Airborne lidar for fisheries surveys | |
| HRDL | High Resolution Doppler Lidar | High spatial temporal and velocity resolution wind profiles, Boundary layer turbulence and entrainment zone studies and flux measurements | |
| Mini-MOPA CO2 | Doppler Lidar | Provides vertical profiles of wind speed, wind direction, turbulence, aerosol species concentration (DIAL), cloud geometry and microphysical parameters | |
| TOPAZ | Tunable optical profiler for aerosol and ozone lidar | TOPAZ is capable of measuring ozone concentration in the lower troposphere from an airborne platform with uncertainties of only a few ppbv at 90-m vertical and 600-m horizontal resolution | |
Other | |||
| ABAEL | Airborne Aerosol Lidar | ABAEL was designed to detect aerosol layers in the atmosphere from an aircraft (Decommissioned) | |
| ABDIAL | Airborne Eximer Ozone DIAL | Airborne mapping of lower tropospheric ozone and aerosol distributions (Decommissioned) | |
| CODI | Compact Water Vapor DIAL | Automated lidar to continuously profile water vapor in lower troposphere | |
| HULA | High Resolution Ultraviolet Lidar for Aerosol | Under development, HULA will be used to monitor aerosol formation, evolution and transport | |
| OPAL | Ozone Profiling Atmospheric Lidar | Used to monitor ozone and aerosol formation, evolution and transport (Decommissioned) | |
| TEA CO2 | Doppler Lidar | Measured particle backscatter and radial velocity (Decommissioned) | |