RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: Stephan Kreipl

MAILING ADDRESS: Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, D-82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

TELEPHONE NUMBER: (+49)-8821-183-209

FAX NUMBER: (+49)-8821-73573

E-MAIL ADDRESS: trickl@ifu.fhg.de

WEB SITE: http://www.ifu.fhg.de

DATE: August 14, 2001

LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.): Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 47.5 N, 11.0 E

SITE ELEVATION: 730 m a.s.l.

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED: Aerosol

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: Investigation of tropospheric aerosol, transport studies; sponsors: German Bundesministerium für Bildung, Forschung und Technologie, European Union

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE: backscatter lidar

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 0.25 to 10 km (slant path)

SLANT-PATH RESOLUTION: typ. 3.75 m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): more than 4 measurements per week

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): 1 to 5 min

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): Nd:YAG, 355 nm, 532 nm, 1064 nm

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 0.4 J

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 10 Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 300 mm Cassegrain

DETECTORS USED: PMT and Photodiode (RSV G.m.b.H., Germany)

SIGNAL PROCESSING: 12 bit/40 MHz transient digitizer

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER: 12 bit/40 MHz (Licel)

COMPUTER: PC

PLATFORM (if applicable): Trailer

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):

G. J. Kunz, T. Trickl, Lidar measurements during the MAPTIP trial, Proc. SPIE 2828 (1996) 31-38

W. Carnuth, T. Trickl, Transport Studies with the IFU three-wavelength aerosol lidar during the VOTALP Mesolcina experiment, Atmos. Environ. 34 (2000) 1425-1434

M. Furger, J. Dommen, W. K. Graber, L. Pioggio, A. S. H. Prévôt, S. Emeis, G. Grell, T. Trickl, B. Gomiscek, B. Neininger, G. Votava, The VOTALP Mesolcina Valley Campaign - concept, background and some highlights, Atmos. Environ. 34 (2000) 1395-1412

S. Kreipl, R. Mücke, H. Jäger, T. Trickl, A. Stohl, Spectacular Cases of Vertical and Long-Range Ozone and Aerosol Transport, in: Advances in Laser Remote Sensing, A. Dabas, C. Loth, J. Pelon, Eds., Édition de l´École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France 2001), 455-458

J. Bösenberg, M Alpers, D. Althausen, A. Ansmann, C. Böckmann, R. Eixmann, A. Francke, V. Freudenthaler, H. Giehl, H. Jäger, S. Kreipl, H. Linné, V. Matthias, I. Mattis, D. Müller, J. Sarközi, L. Scheidenbach, J. Schneider, T. Trickl, E. Vorobieva, U. Wandinger, M. Wiegner, The German Aerosol Lidar Network: Methodology, Data, Analysis, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg (Germany, 2001), report. No. 317, ISSN 0937-1060, 155 pp.

COMMENTS: Manual angular scanning 0-90° in elevation, ±90° in azimuth