LIDAR RESEARCHER: Professor, Jun Zhou

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: Guming Yu, Chuanjia Jin, Fudi Qi, Dong Liu,
Chenbo Xie, Zhiqin Zhong

MAILING ADDRESS: Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
P.O. Box 1125, Hefei 230031, China

TELEPHONE NUMBER: 0086-551-5591521

FAX NUMBER: 0086-551-5591521

E-MAIL ADDRESS: jzhou@aiofm.ac.cn

WEB SITE: http://www.aiofm.ac.cn

DATE: August 14, 2001

LIDAR LOCATION : Hefei, China, ( )

SITE ELEVATION: 30 m ASL

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED: Aerosol and cirrus cloud

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: Long-term monitoring of tropospheric
aerosol and cirrus cloud
Chinese Academy of Sciences

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE: Elastic backscatter

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 0.03-18 km AGL

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: 30 m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): Regular during clear days

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): Night and early morning

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

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 532 nm-70 mJ, 1064 nm-150 mJ

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 10 Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 0.3 m diameter Cassegrain

DETECTORS USED: HAMAMATSU R2257 and EMI 9206A

SIGNAL PROCESSING: Analog
Photon counting

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER: CAMAC system DSP Tech 2210 transient
recorder (10 MHz, 12-bit)
FDC-700 photon counter (700MHz, 200 ns)

COMPUTER: 120 MHz PC

PLATFORM (if applicable):

PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):
Zhou, J., Optical properties of tropospheric aerosols derived from lidar measurements over Hefei, Proc. SPIE,3501, 112-117, 1998.

Zhou, J., C. Wang and Z. Ma, Two-wavelength lidar observations of tropospheric aerosol over Hefei, China from 1997 to 1999, Abstracts of First Asia Aerosol Conference, Nagoya, Japan, 96-97, 1999.

Zhou, J., G. Yu, C. Jin, F. Qi, W. Yi, T. LI, Y. Chen and L. Xiong, Two wavelength Mie lidar for monitoring of tropospheric aerosol, ACTA OPTICA SINICA, 28, No. 10, 1412-1417, 2000.

Zhou, J., T. Li, X. Qiu, and Z. Gong, Lidar observations of tropospheric aerosol over Hefei, China, Advances in Laser Remote Sensing, selected papers presented at the 20th International Laser Radar Conference in Vichy, France , edited by A. Dabas, C. Loth and J. Pelon, 173-177, 2000.

Zhou, J., G. Yu, C. Jin, F. Qi, D. Liu, H. Hu, Z. Gong, Lidar Observations of Asian Dust over Hefei, China in the Spring of 2000, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 2001.