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Flight tests of a range-resolved airborne dial with two min-tea co2 lasers
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Itabe, T. Aruga, T. Ishizu, M. Asai, K. Igarashi, T. |
| Copyright Year | 1986 |
| Description | It is important to measure regional distributions of ozone concentrations in a short time for understanding a mechanism of photo-chemical smog development. An airborne Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) system with two low-power mini-TEA CO2 lasers was developed for measuring three-dimensional distributions of ozone in the lower troposphere. The CO2 DIAL is a nadir-looking system and is designed to measure ozone profiles between ground and airplane by using atmospheric aerosols as a distributed radar target. First flight test with a single laser were conducted in February 1985 over the Tokyo area. The system was operated at an altitude of 5000 ft. Results of the first flight tests show that the height profiles of the received power in the boundary layer were different between over land and ocean. The received power has to be inverted to an expression of a single optical parameter to see real aerosol distributions. Inversion of the lidar signal to the aerosol extinction was performed by using Klett's solution. |
| File Size | 105209 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19870000851 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3hx6755d |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1986-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lasers And Masers Equipment Specifications Airborne Equipment Tea Lasers Atmospheric Composition Extinction Backscattering Aerosols Ozone Optical Radar Radar Measurement Carbon Dioxide Lasers Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |