RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: Dr. Mike Foster, Dr. Jonathan Storey, Dr. Ivelin Baleski

MAILING ADDRESS: Hovemere Ltd. 56, Hayes St., Hayes, Bromley,
Kent, UK BR2 7LD

TELEPHONE NUMBER: 44-208-462-4921

FAX NUMBER: 44-208-462-7841

E-MAIL ADDRESS: walnut1@easynet.co.uk

WEB SITE: http://www.hovemere.com

DATE: 10/08/01

LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.): Boxley, Maidstone, Kent, UK
51.32oN, 0.5oE

SITE ELEVATION: 50 m amsl

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED: Wind Profiles

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: Troposphere / Stratosphere
Winds - climatology / variations

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE: Incoherent, Fringe Imaging Doppler Lidar

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 1 - 35 km altitude

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: 200 m.

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): 10 mins

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): Campaign Basis

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): Nd-YAG, l = 532 nm

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 600 mJ

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 20 Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 36 cm Diam, Cassegrain

DETECTORS USED: 24-ch. ring-anode MCP-PMT

SIGNAL PROCESSING: 24-Channel DSP System

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER: not applicable

COMPUTER: 500 MHz Pentium

PLATFORM (if applicable): Mobile System (7.5 ton van)

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):

230. REES D., U. VON ZAHN, G. VON COSSART, G. NELKE, K.H.FRICKE and N.D. LLOYD, (1997), "The Doppler Wind and Temperature System of the ALOMAR Lidar," ESA SP - 397, pp 121-128.
231. REES D., U. VON ZAHN, W. SINGER, G. VON COSSART, G. NELKE, K.H.FRICKE, R. RUSTER, W ERIKSEN and N.D. LLOYD, (1998), "Observations of Winds in the Arctic Stratosphere by the ALOMAR Doppler Wind and Temperature System" Proceedings of the 24th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric by Optical Methods, ISBN 82-994583-0-7, p122-128, Sentraltrykkeriet, Bodo, Norway.
240. Hoffmann P., W. Singer, G.von Cossart, D. Rees, G. Schmidt, N.D. Lloyd, (1998), "Comparison of tropo--lower stratospheric winds obtained with the ALOMAR Sousy radar and the ALOMAR lidar Doppler wind system", Proc. of the 8th Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST radar, ed. by B. Edwards, STEP, pp. 266 -269.
242. Baumgarten G., D. Rees, and N. D. Lloyd, Observations of Arctic Stratospheric Winds by the ALOMAR Doppler Wind and Temperature System, ESA SP-437, 331-334, 1999.
250. von Zahn, U., G. von Cossart, J. Fiedler, K.H. Fricke, G. Nelke, G. Baumgarten, D. Rees, A. Hauchcorne and K. Adolfsen, "The ALOMAR Rayleigh / Mie / Raman Lidar: Objectives, Configuration and Performance," Annales Geophysicae, 18, 815-833, (2000).

COMMENTS: Maidstone is the Home Base for the Mobile IDWL System.