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: Eye-safe backscatter lidar

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 0.3 to 10 km

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: typ. 3.75 m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): Infrequent, mainly applied in field campaigns

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): 1 to 5 min

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): Nd:YAG, Raman shifted to 1560 nm (eyesafe)

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 0.27 J

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 10 Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 381 mm Newtonian

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

SIGNAL PROCESSING: 12 bit/40 MHz transient digitizer

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

COMPUTER: PC

PLATFORM (if applicable): Trailer

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):

W. Carnuth, T. Trickl, A powerful eyesafe infrared aerosol lidar: Application of Stimulated Raman backscattering of 1.06 mm radiation, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 65 (1994) 3324-3331

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

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 capability: 0-40° in elevation