RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: V.D. Burlakov, A.V. El'nikov, S.V.Smirnov, S.I. Dolgii, S.L. Bondarenko, A.V. Nevzorov

MAILING ADDRESS:
Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB
RAS, 1, Akademicheskii Ave.,
Tomsk., 634055, Russia

TELEPHONE NUMBER:
7-3822-25-84-82

FAX NUMBER:
7-3822-25-83-85

E-MAIL ADDRESS:
zuev@ldsa.tomsk.su

WEB SITE: http://www.sbras.ru/sicc/cooper4.htm

DATE: August 16, 2001

LIDAR LOCATION: Tomsk, Russia (56.5º N, 85.0º E)

SITE ELEVATION: 150 m MSL

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED:
Aerosols, ozone, temperature and humidity

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: Long-term measurements of stratospheric volcanic and background aerosol ozone, stratospheric and mesospheric temperature, tropospheric humidity; investigations into mechanisms of transformation of the ozonosphere under support of the Russian Ministry of Science (grant No 01-64) and Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants No 99-05-64 943 and No 01-05-64 644)

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE: DIAL, elastic and Raman backscatter

MEASUREMENT RANGE: Aerosol 10-30 km, ozone 10-50 km, temperature 10-70 km, humidity 0-10 km

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: 0,1-1 km

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): 4-8 per month (dependent on weather)

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY): Night (clear sky)

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): Nd: YAG with H2 Raman cell (532, 683 nm); XeCl with H2 Raman cell (308, 353 nm)

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 532 nm - 150 mJ, 683 nm - 60 mJ; 308 nm - 200 mJ, 353 nm - 80 mJ

PULSE REPETITION RATE: Nd: YAG - 20 Hz, XeCl - (50-200) Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 2,2; 0,5 and 0,3 m diameters, newtonian and cassegrain

DETECTORS USED: PMT-130 and Hamamatsu R 7207-01

SIGNAL PROCESSING: Photon counting

ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER: Photon counters, 2x1024 (100 m), 100 M Hz

COMPUTER: IBM PENTIUM 166

PLATFORM: Ground-based lidars with receiver telescope diam. 2,2 and 0,5 m and mobile aerosol lidar with receiver telescope diam. 0.3 m.

PUBLICATIONS:
Zuev V.V., Burlakov V.D., and El'nikov A.V., Ten years (1989-1995) of lidar observations of temporal and vertical structure of stratospheric aerosols over Siberia, J. of Aerosol Sci., Vol. 29, 1179-1187, 1998.

Zuev V.V., Siberian Lidar Station - the unique experimental complex for remote investigations of the ozonosphere, Atmos. Oceanic Opt., Vol. 13, 85-88, 2000.

Zuev V.V., Burlakov V.D., El'nikov A.V., Ivanov A.P., Chaikovskii A.P., and Shchebakov V.N., Processes of long-term relaxation of stratospheric aerosol layer in Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes after a powerful volcanic eruption, Athmospheric Environment, 2001, in press.

COMMENTS:
A database has been accumulated of measurements of the aerosol (since 1986); ozone (since 1989) and temperature (since 1995).