First retrievals of the physical thickness and optical depth of dense clouds with off-beam/multiple-scattering lidar

Author

Love, Steven P. ; Davis, Anthony B. ; Winker, David M. ; Cahalan, Robert F.

Author_Institution

Space & Remote Sensing Sci. Group, Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

67

Abstract

Cloud lidar data from NASA´s Lidar-Inspace Technology Experiment (LITE) mission and from LANL´s new Wide-Angle Imaging Lidar (WAIL) prototype show that the multiple-scattering theory of off-beam lidar readily explains the observations, as long as internal stratification of cloud density is accounted for. At the same time, predictions for spatial and temporal statistics of the signals are used to infer the optical depth and the physical thickness of the clouds being probed

Keywords

atmospheric optics; atmospheric techniques; clouds; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; LANL; LITE; WAIL; Wide-Angle Imaging Lidar; atmosphere; cloud; dense cloud; internal stratification; lidar; measurement technique; multiple scattering theory; off beam multiple scattering lidar; off-beam lidar; optical depth; optical thickness; physical thickness; remote sensing; Clouds; Equations; Laser radar; Optical imaging; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Prototypes; Signal analysis; Space missions; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976059

Filename

976059