RESEARCH ASSOCIATES:

MAILING ADDRESS: NASA Langley Research Center, MS 401A, Hampton, VA 23681, USA

TELEPHONE NUMBER: 1-757-864-5846

FAX NUMBER: 1-757-864-7790

E-MAIL ADDRESS: w.b.grant@larc.nasa.gov

WEB SITE: http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/

DATE: August 22, 2001

LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.):

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PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED: Aerosols, ozone

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: Study the global troposphere and stratosphere to establish baseline conditions and look for changes; NASA is the usual sponsor.

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE: UV DIAL

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FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): One field measurement program annually.

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY):

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): Nd:YAG-pumped dye laser; 1064, 580, 600, 300, 290 nm.

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PLATFORM (if applicable): Airborne on DC-8 on field missions around the world.

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):
Aerosols from biomass burning over the tropical South Atlantic region: Distributions and impacts, B. E. Anderson, W. B. Grant, G. L. Gregory, E. V. Browell et al., J. Geophys. Res., 101, 24,117-24,137, 1996.

Laser Applications in Remote Sensing, SPIE Milestones series, W.B. Grant, E.V. Browell, R.T. Menzies, K. Sassen, and C.-Y. She, eds., 690 pp, 86 papers, 1997.

Differential absorption lidar (DIAL) measurements from air and space, Browell, E. V., S. Ismail, and W. B. Grant, Appl. Phys. B 67, 399-410, 1998.

Correlative ozone measurements with the airborne UV DIAL system during TOTE/VOTE, W. B. Grant, M. A. Fenn, E. V. Browell, C. . Butler, T. McGee, U. N. Singh, M. Gross et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 623-626, 1998.

A case study of transport of tropical marine boundary layer and lower-tropospheric air masses to the northern mid-latitude upper troposphere, W. B. Grant, E. V. Browell, C. F. Butler, M. A. Fenn, M. B. Clayton, J. R. Hannan, H. E. Fuelberg et al. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 3757-3769, 2000.