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Who is the Lidar Applications Group

Description of the Lidar Applications Group Activities

Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) Concept

Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment LASE

Airborne DIAL and LASE Campaign Data Sets

Listing of Lidar Applications Group Publications

 

Airborne Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) Field Experiment Examples:

Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry near the Equator - Atlantic (TRACE-A)

NOTE: Collage of imagery showing biomass burning in Africa, as observed visually (from DC-8 aircraft) and from space by AVHRR satellite, that was investigated during TRACE-A     Biomass Burning

Flight 13: Nadir data showing plume from biomass burning and low-level cloud and enhanced photochemically produced O3 across the troposphere.    

  Aerosols           Ozone

Pacific Exploratory Mission - West B (PEM-West B)

Flight 17: Zenith data showing stratospheric intrusion.     Aerosols      Ozone

Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE) Validation Experiment

Flight 10: Nadir data from high-altitude (ER-2) aircraft across eastern U.S. from Georgia to West Virginia.

Aerosols         Water Vapor

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NASA GSFC  (Goddard Space Flight Center Homepage)

GSFC DAAC  (The GSFC DAAC and how to use it)

LASE  (Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment)

NASA FACTs for LASE  (Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment)

NASA FACTs for DIAL  (Airborne UV Differential Absorption Lidar)

International Lidar Researcher's Directory  (Includes other Lidar Homepage Links)

Bio-Mass Burning/Global Change  (Home page under NASA LaRC ASD Division)

OPTICS - Lidar Bibliography  (Over 700 References on Lidar and related fields)

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