LIDAR RESEARCHER: Ph.D. Xiaoquan Song

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: Kailin Zhang, Songhua Wu, Jinjia Guo

MAILING ADDRESS: Ocean Remote Sensing Institute, Ocean University of China

No.5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, China

TELEPHONE NUMBER: 86-532-2032992

FAX NUMBER: 86-532-2032992

E-MAIL ADDRESS: opticsa@mail.ouc.edu.cn

WEB SITE: http://

DATE: May 4, 2004

LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.): Qingdao, China, 36º05'N, 120º19'E

SITE ELEVATION: 40m

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED: aerosol and cloud

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: Long-term monitoring of tropospheric aerosol and cloud

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE: Elastic backscatter

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 0.1~15 km

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: 37.5 m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): 3 days/week

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): Night

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): Diode pumped laser (Micro pulse lidar), 532nm

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 10uJ

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 2.5 kHz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 200mm, Cassegrain

DETECTORS USED: PMT

SIGNAL PROCESSING: Analog, Photon counting

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER: ADC: 40 MHz, 12 bit; photon counter : 100 MHz, 250 ns