An Error Analysis for High Spectral Resolution Lidar Measurements

Abstract

The University of Wisconsin High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) provides calibrated vertical profiles of the backscatter cross section, extinction cross section, depolarization, and optical depth.1,2 Unlike values obtained from conventional lidars, these measurements do not require a priori assumptions relating backscatter and extinction cross sections and they do not involve numerically unstable inversion algorithms.