Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Instruments
Airborne Aerosol Lidar (ABAEL)
ABAEL installed on aircraft.
Decommissioned
ABAEL is designed to detect aerosol layers in the atmosphere from an aircraft. It is deployed for air quality missions to locate aerosol layers for in-situ sampling and for mapping the regional distribution of aerosols.
Contact: Raul Alvarez
Basic Parameters Measured
- Aerosol backscatter
Field Projects
| Project Name | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Intercontinental Transport and Chemical Transformation of Anthropogenic Pollution (ITCT) 2k2 | April-May 2002 | Monterey, California |
Typical Specifications
| Wavelength | 355 nm, 15 mJ/pulse | |
| Rep rate | 20 Hz | |
| Dual Channel | 12 bit GAGE digitizer with 30 Msample/sec rate | |
| Near Channel | 2" diameter 3 mRad field-of-view bi-axial configuration, designed to see from 120 m to 1 km | |
| Far Channel | 10" diameter 1 mRad field of-of-view co-axial configuration, designed to see from 600 m to 8 km | |
| Detectors | PMTs with 1 nm FWHM filters at 355 nm | |