RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: Anderson Zanardi de Freitas, Maria Paulete Martins Pereira Jorge

MAILING ADDRESS: Centro de Lasers e Aplicações - ipen/cnen-sp
Travessa R 400, Cidade Universitária - 05508900
São Paulo - SP - Brasil
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 551138169314

FAX NUMBER: 551138169315

E-MAIL ADDRESS: elandulf@net.ipen.br

WEB SITE: http://www.ipe.br/m/me/meo/lidar/Lidar.html

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LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.):
São Paulo, Brazil, 23 33,647' S, 46 44,396' W
SITE ELEVATION: 780 m

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED: aerosol profile, extinction and backscattering coefficients (aerosol), planetary boundary layer dynamics

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: pollution monitoring and atmospheric studies, FAPESP (Brazil), CNPq(Brazil) and ICTP(Italy)

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE:elastic backscattering lidar

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 0,3 up to 6 km

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: 3 - 30 m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): 3 times a week

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): morning, noon, sunset

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): Nd:YAG (532 nm)

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: up to 160 mJ

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 20 Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 30 cm diameter mirror, newtonian

DETECTORS USED: PMT (S-20 surface RCA) and Large Aerea Photoavalanche Diodes

SIGNAL PROCESSING:

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER: Tetronix oscilloscope - 1Ghz (4 channels)

COMPUTER: PC- 500 MHZ

PLATFORM (if applicable):

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):

FULL PAPER IN CONFERENCES:

1 - DEVELOPMENT OF A LIDAR SYSTEM FOR POLLUTION MONITORING OVER THE CITY OF SÃO PAULO Eduardo Landulfo, Anderson Zanardi de Freitas, Gessé Eduardo Calvo Nogueira, Niklaus Ursus Wetter, Nilson Dias Vieira Junior, Spero Penha Morato, Alexandros Papayannis, Harmi Takiya, Maria Paulete Pereira Martins Jorge.

XXIV encontro nacional de física da matéria condensada 15 a 19 de maio de 2001 - São Lourenço - MG - BRAZIL

POSTER SESSIONS IN CONFERENCES:

1 - A COMPACT ELASTIC BACKSCATTER LIDAR SYSTEM FOR AEROSOL MONITORING OVER THE CITY OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL Eduardo Landulfo, Anderson Zanardi de Freitas, Gessé Eduardo Calvo Nogueira, Niklaus Ursus Wetter, Nilson Dias Vieira Junior, Spero Penha Morato, Alexandros Papayannis, Harmi Takiya, Maria Paulete Pereira Martins Jorge.

20th International Laser Radar Conference 10 - 14 July 2000, Vichy, France

2 - A BACKSCATERING LIDAR SYSTEM FOR AEROSOL MONITORING OVER THE CITY OF SÃO PAULO Eduardo Landulfo, Anderson Zanardi de Freitas, Gessé Eduardo Calvo Nogueira, Niklaus Ursus Wetter, Nilson Dias Vieira Junior, Spero Penha Morato, Alexandros Papayannis, Harmi Takiya, Maria Paulete Pereira Martins Jorge.

IV Reunión Iberoamericana de Optica - VII Encuentro Latinoamericano de Optica, Láseres y sus Aplicaciones 3 - 7 September 2001, Tandil, Argentina. (Accepted)

3 - AEROSOLS OBSERVATIONS BY AN ELASTIC LIDAR SYSTEM OVER THE CITY OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL Eduardo Landulfo, Anderson Zanardi de Freitas, Nilson Dias Vieira Junior, Alexandros Papayannis, Maria Paulete Pereira Martins Jorge.

European Aerosol Conference 2001 3 - 7 September 2001, Leipzig, Germany. (Submitted)

COMMENTS:

Our system will fully running by middle August 2001.