LIDAR RESEARCHER:
Prof. Nicola Spinelli
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES:
Dr. Antonella Boselli
Prof. Raffele Velotta
Dr. Xuan Wang
Dr. Loredana D'Avino
MAILING ADDRESS:
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche - Università di Napoli
Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, ed. G
Via Cintia
80126 Napoli - Italy
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
+39 018676276
FAX NUMBER:
+39 081676346
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
spinelli@na.infn.it
WEB SITE:
http://www.na.infn.it
DATE:
August, 28 2001
LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.):
Napoli, Italy - 40 50' N , 14 11' E
SITE ELEVATION:
108 m asl
PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED:
Aerosol
Water vapor
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR:
INFM - Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia
MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE:
Raman
MEASUREMENT RANGE:
0-20 Km
VERTICAL RESOLUTION:
60m
FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY):
3-5 measurements per week
MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY):
30 min
LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s):
XeF excimer laser - 355 nm
LASER ENERGY/PULSE:
50 mJ
PULSE REPETITION RATE:
up to 200Hz ( 50 typ.)
RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION:
1) 30 cm - Newtonian ( f=1.2 m)
2) 50 cm - Cassegrain ( f=5.0m)
DETECTORS USED:
Photomultipliers: Thorn EMI 9202QB ; Hamamatsu R1828
SIGNAL PROCESSING:
Analog + Photocounting
ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER:
Tektronix 540B
COMPUTER:
PC Digital Server 1000
PLATFORM (if applicable):
Windows NT/2000
PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):
P. Di Girolamo, P. F. Ambrico, A. Amodeo, A. Boselli, G. Pappalardo,
N. Spinelli, Aerosol observations in the nocturnal boundary layer,
Appl. Opt. 38, N° 21, 4585 - 4595 (1999);
P. F Ambrico, A. Amodeo, S. Amoruso, M. Armenante, A. Boselli,
M. Pandolfi, G. Pappalardo, N. Spinelli, R. Velotta, Monitoring
of an industrial area in Southern Italy by using a multiwavelength
lidar, Optica Applicata 29, N° 4, p. 426 - 428 (1999);
P. F. Ambrico, A. Amodeo, P. Di Girolamo, N. Spinelli, Sensitivity
Analysis of DIAL Measurements in the Mid IR Region, Applied Optics
, vol. 39 n. 36, 2000;
Amodeo, A. Boselli, L. Fiorani, G. Passeggio, R. Velotta Innovative
Telescope for 3-d Lidar Measurements. J. of Optoel. and Adv. Mat.
2, 73-81 (2000).
J. Schneider, D. Balis, C. Bockmann, J. Bosenberg, B. calpini,
A.P. Chaikovsky, A. Comeron, P. Flamant, V. Freudenthaler, A.
Hagard, I. Mattis, V. Mitev, A. Papayannis, G. Pappalardo, J.
Pelon, M.R. perrone, D.P. Resendes, N. Spinelli, T. Trickl, G.
Vaughan, and G. Visconti, A European aerosol research lidar network
to establish an aerosol climatology (EARLINET), J. Aerosol Sci.,
31, Suppl. 1, 592-593, 2000.
COMMENTS:
The replacement of the excimer laser source with a NdYAG laser
( 1064 nm, 532 nm, 355 nm) is planned for December 2001
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