RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: Shiv Sharma, John Porter, Tony Clarke, Volodia Kapustin

MAILING ADDRESS: HIGP/SOEST, 2525 Correa Rd., Honolulu HI 96822

TELEPHONE NUMBER: (808) 956-7815

FAX NUMBER: (808) 956-3189

E-MAIL ADDRESS: lienert@soest.hawaii.edu

WEB SITE: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/lidar

DATE: 8/30/2001

LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.):
Bellows Beach, Oahu

SITE ELEVATION: 0

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED:
Backscatter at 355, 532 & 1064 nm

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR:
Determine optical properties in the lower marine boundary layer, ONR

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE:
200 mJ Nd:YAG 20 Hz laser, 30 cm diam Cassegrain telescope, APD & PMT detectors
10 deg/sec two-axis 30 cm scanner

MEASUREMENT RANGE:
0-10 km

VERTICAL RESOLUTION:
8 m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY):
weekly

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY):
evening

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s):
Continuum Surelight 20 Hz

LASER ENERGY/PULSE:
200 mJ

PULSE REPETITION RATE:
20 Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION:
Meade LX200 30 cm diam. Schmidt-Cassegrain

DETECTORS USED:
EMI 9863 PMT, EG&G 30960 APD

SIGNAL PROCESSING:
Custom Windows software (C)

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER:
3xGage 6012 60 Mhz

COMPUTER:
Pentium III 750 MHz

PLATFORM (if applicable):
Windows ME

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):
B. R. Lienert, J. Porter , S. K. Sharma, Repetitive Genetic Inversion of Optical of Optical Extinction Data, Appl. Optics, 40, 3476-3482, 2001

Porter, J, B. Lienert, S. K. Sharma, Using Horizontal and Slant Lidar Measurements To Obtain Aerosol Scattering Coefficients From A Coastal Lidar In Hawaii, J. Atmos. Oceanic Techn., 17, 1445-1454, 2000.

Lienert, B.R., J. Porter, S.K. Sharma, Genetic inversion of lidar scattering data, Proceedings of the 20th International Laser Radar Conference, July 10-14, Vichy, France.

Lienert, B.R., J.N. Porter and S.K. Sharma, Real time analysis and display of scanning lidar scattering data, Marine Geodesy, 22, p259-265, 1999.

A. D. Clarke, F. Eisele, V. N. Kapustin, K. Moore, R. Tanner, L. Mauldin, M. Litchy, B. Lienert, M. A. Carroll, G. Albercook, Nucleation in the Equatorial Free Troposphere: Favorable Environments during PEM-Tropics, J. Geophys. Res, 104, 5735-5744, 1999.