TY - JOUR
T1 - Raman Lidar for Meteorological Observations, RALMO
T2 - Part 1 Instrument description
AU - Dinoev, T.
AU - Simeonov, V. B.
AU - Arshinov, Y.
AU - Bobrovnikov, S.
AU - Ristori, Pablo
AU - Calpini, B.
AU - Parlange, M.
AU - Bergh, Hubert van den
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A new Raman lidar for unattended, round-the-clock measurement of vertical water vapor profiles for operational use by the MeteoSwiss has been developed during the past years by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. The lidar uses narrow field-of-view, narrow-band configuration, a UV laser, and four 30 cm in diameter mirrors, fiber-coupled to a grating polychromator. The optical design allows water vapor retrieval from the incomplete overlap region without instrument-specific range-dependent corrections. The daytime vertical range covers the mid-troposphere, whereas the nighttime range extends to the tropopause. The near range coverage is extended down to 100 m AGL by the use of an additional fiber in one of the telescopes. This paper describes the system layout and technical realization. Day- and nighttime lidar profiles compared to Vaisala RS92 and Snow White® profiles and a six-day continuous observation are presented as an illustration of the lidar measurement capability.
AB - A new Raman lidar for unattended, round-the-clock measurement of vertical water vapor profiles for operational use by the MeteoSwiss has been developed during the past years by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. The lidar uses narrow field-of-view, narrow-band configuration, a UV laser, and four 30 cm in diameter mirrors, fiber-coupled to a grating polychromator. The optical design allows water vapor retrieval from the incomplete overlap region without instrument-specific range-dependent corrections. The daytime vertical range covers the mid-troposphere, whereas the nighttime range extends to the tropopause. The near range coverage is extended down to 100 m AGL by the use of an additional fiber in one of the telescopes. This paper describes the system layout and technical realization. Day- and nighttime lidar profiles compared to Vaisala RS92 and Snow White® profiles and a six-day continuous observation are presented as an illustration of the lidar measurement capability.
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U2 - 10.5194/amt-6-1329-2013
DO - 10.5194/amt-6-1329-2013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84882775748
SN - 1867-1381
VL - 6
SP - 1329
EP - 1346
JO - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
JF - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
IS - 5
ER -