Lidars are used to measure the concentration of water vapour in the lower troposphere, where the lack of information does not allow to sufficiently constrain the prediction of extreme precipitation events. Two innovative lidar technologies are developped and deployed, one based on inelastic Raman scattering and the other one on differential absorption through the atmospheric […]
Few airborne aerosol research experiments have deployed N2-Raman lidar despite its capability to retrieve aerosol optical properties without ambiguity and help to identified the atmospheric vertical strutures. It is possible by using specific flight plans and appropriate algorithmic approach, aiming to solve the notorious instability of the airborne lidar inversion. One of the fundamental vertical […]
The increasing importance of the coupling of water and aerosol cycles in environmental applications requires observation tools which allow simultaneous measurements of these two fundamental processes for climatological and meteorological studies. For this purpose, a new mobile Raman lidar, WALI (Water vapor and Aerosol LIdar), has been developed and implemented within the framework of the […]