MAILING ADDRESS: Norw.Def.Res.Est. (FFI), P.O. Box 25, N-2027 Kjeller, Norway

TELEPHONE NUMBER: +47-63 80 72 87

FAX NUMBER: +47-63 80 72 12

E-MAIL ADDRESS: uph@ffi.no , georg@nilu.no , michael@rocketrange.no

WEB SITE: http://www.rocketrange.no/alomar/lsf

DATE: 10 September 2001

LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.): Andenes, Norway, 69 N, 16 E

SITE ELEVATION: 374 m

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED: Ozone density profiles, others

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: atmosphere research; FFI, NILU, ARR; Norwegian and European sponsors

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE: DIAL

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 8-30 km typ.

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: 100-2000 m typ.

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): 50 measurement days per year

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): whenever the sky is clear for a few hours, day or night

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): XeCl, 308 nm / 353 nm

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 80 mJ typ.

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 200 s-1

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 1 m diameter reflector

DETECTORS USED: PMT

SIGNAL PROCESSING: photon counting

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant): see: http://www.rocketrange.no/alomar/about/publications.html

COMMENTS: This is one of three lidars at the ALOMAR Observatory, see http://www.rocketrange.no/alomar .
The ALOMAR Ozone Lidar and a number of other ALOMAR instruments are availabe to European Research Groups through the EU's Access to Research Infrastructures programme, see http://www.rocketrange.no/alomar/lsf .