{"title":"Implications of Aerosol Phenomenology on Sensor and Algorithm Design","authors":"Steven D. Westerman","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1993.thb.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1993.thb.6","url":null,"abstract":"Atmospheric haze, or aerosols, can dramatically reduce the horizontal visibility in a region. During pollution outbreaks such haze can be so thick that it appears to hang in the air. Scientists have been studying the detailed composition, dynamics and effects of aerosols on emitted radiation for years. An eventual goal is to produce a global method for the remote determination of aerosol content. To date, results from these studies have had an impact on our understanding of the Earth-radiation budget, pollution source monitoring, and visible image correction. They have also indicated that the influence of aerosols is very difficult to assess because of its tremendous variation in time and space.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130945983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pinatubo Cloud Over Garmisch-Partenkirchen","authors":"H. Jäger","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1991.otue18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1991.otue18","url":null,"abstract":"The explosive eruptions of the Philippine volcano Pinatubo in mid-June 1991 caused the first major perturbation of the stratosphere since the eruption of the Mexican volcano El Chichón in April 1982. Early groundbased, satelliteborne and in situ observations of the Pinatubo eruption cloud were collected by McClelland et al., 1991. Satellite images from July and August did not show a significant transport of volcanic debris to mid-latitudes, the major part of the cloud was reported to be confined in an equatorial band 15°S to 25°N with the densest part in the 20 to 25 km height range and further layers below 20 km.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"258 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132894932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. S. Higdon, T. Chyba, P. Ponsardin, R. Deyoung, E. Browell
{"title":"Recent Developments and Field Tests of the NASA Langley Research Center Airborne Water Vapor DIAL System","authors":"N. S. Higdon, T. Chyba, P. Ponsardin, R. Deyoung, E. Browell","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1995.tuc27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1995.tuc27","url":null,"abstract":"An airborne differential absorption lidar (DIAL) system has been developed at the NASA Langley Research Center for the remote measurement of water vapor (H2O) and aerosols in the lower troposphere. Significant modifications to the laser transmitters and other major subsystems have been implemented during the past two years to improve the system's performance and field reliability. The previous configuration of the airborne H2O DIAL system and the associated atmospheric data collected during flight tests at Wallops Flight Facility are described in detail in two recently published papers (Higdon et al., 1994 and Ponsardin et al., 1994). The modified system is to be flight tested in late 1994, and the system performance characteristics and preliminary atmospheric H2O and aerosol data from these flights are discussed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133152713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Moosmüller, D. Diebel, D. H. Bundy, M. Bristow, C. Edmonds, R. M. Turner, V. Kovalev, R. P. Haas, J. Mcelroy
{"title":"The U.S. EPA airborne UV-DIAL system","authors":"H. Moosmüller, D. Diebel, D. H. Bundy, M. Bristow, C. Edmonds, R. M. Turner, V. Kovalev, R. P. Haas, J. Mcelroy","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1991.owe11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1991.owe11","url":null,"abstract":"A compact airborne downlooking lidar system has been developed at the Environmental Protection Agency in Las Vegas. This differential absorption lidar (DIAL) has been designed to simultaneously measure range-resolved concentrations of ozone (O3) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the lower 3 - 4km of the troposphere, together with an indication of the aerosol distribution.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132591989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"N2O Vertical Profiles Retrieved from Ground-based Solar Absorption Spectra Taken at McMurdo Station During Austral Spring of 1989","authors":"X. Liu, F. Murcray","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1995.tuc5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1995.tuc5","url":null,"abstract":"N2O can be a tracer of atmospheric air motion due to its long life time. Ground-based FTIR solar spectra contain information on the vertical distributions of N2O due to pressure-broadening of absorption lines. We have combined the Chahine-Twomey' relaxation method with a line-by-line layer-by-layer radiative transfer code to retrieve N2O VMR profiles from ground-based solar absorption spectra. The spectra were taken at McMurdo station during the austral spring of 1989 with a 0.02 wavenumber resolution FTIR spectrometer. Since N2O is released from troposphere and is photolyzed in the stratosphere, the line shape of its absorption is mainly due Lorentz broadening. The 0.02 wavenumber resolution is high enough for us to retrieve N2O VMR profiles up to 25 kilometers. Figure 1 shows a typical observed N2O solar spectrum near 1993.15 wavenumber (solid line) and a calculated spectrum using our profile retrieval program. The best fit is obtained by iteratively adjusting N2O VMR profile according to the formulation of Chahine and Twomey. A contour plot of N2O VMR versus altitude and julian day number is shown in Figure 2. The lower tropospheric N2O VMRs have an average value around 310 ppb. Correlations of the N2O contour with that of temperature shows interesting features of tropospheric and lower stratospheric air motions. We have also compared the total N2O column amounts retrieved from this profile retrieval method and from the PC version of the non-linear least square spectral fitting algorithm (SFIT). The temporal variations of the N2O total column amounts retrieved from two methods show excellent correlation.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133168949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Woods, B. W. Jolliffe, M. Milton, T. J. Mcllveen, N. Swann, D. Stuart
{"title":"The Development of New Techniques For Remote Measurements of Atmospheric Gases","authors":"P. Woods, B. W. Jolliffe, M. Milton, T. J. Mcllveen, N. Swann, D. Stuart","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1990.tud6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1990.tud6","url":null,"abstract":"The differential absorption lidar (DIAL) technique potentially has the ability to measure a wide range of atmospheric gases and industrial pollutants. The mobile DIAL facility developed at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is capable of range-resolved measurements of gases such as SO2, NO, NO2 and O3 in the troposphere [1] using visible and ultraviolet radiation. However, there is widespread interest in measuring a much broader range of gaseous pollutants which are emitted in industrial processes. These gases generally have absorption spectra in the infrared spectral region (wavelength range 2–15 μm), where DIAL measurements are much more difficult to carry out. Research aimed at developing a high-energy tunable infrared DIAL source for this requirement is outlined below. The wavelength coverage of the ultraviolet source in the DIAL facility has also been extended to address different atmospheric gases, and examples of results obtained using the NPL simultaneous infrared/ultraviolet DIAL system will be presented.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128831656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Wellemeyer, Ramdas R. Singh, R. Mcpeters, R. Hudson
{"title":"Comparison of Re-calibrated TOMS Total Ozone Data with Dobson Network","authors":"C. Wellemeyer, Ramdas R. Singh, R. Mcpeters, R. Hudson","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1990.wa8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1990.wa8","url":null,"abstract":"Nine years of reprocessed Version 6 total ozone data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) are compared with selected subsets of the Dobson ground based Network. A small long-term drift of -0.11 ± 0.09 %/yr (95% confidence) is identified in the first nine years of TOMS data relative to Dobson. This small change in bias (amounting to 1% over the nine year period) is of the order of the long-term stability of the calibration of both measurement systems. However, a possible mechanism for the drift is identified. Changes in tropospheric ozone are only partly measured by the backscattered ultraviolet (BUV) method [Klenk et al., 1982]. Based on recent estimates of the change in tropospheric ozone [Bojkov, 1987] and of the BUV sensitivity to changes in tropospheric ozone [Fleig et al., 1989], about half of the observed drift would be attributed to this effect. The reprocessed Version 6 TOMS data set is available through the National Space Science Data Center, GSFC/NASA, Greenbelt Maryland.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128850244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barium Ion Lidar: Analysis of a lidar system for measuring temperatures in the middle thermosphere (200-500 km)","authors":"R. Collins, H. Stenbaek-Nielsen","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1995.tuc25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1995.tuc25","url":null,"abstract":"Resonance scattering techniques have enjoyed considerable successes in probing the upper atmosphere. Temperature lidars have used the hyperfine structure of the sodium resonance lines to measure temperatures at high resolution in the mesospheric sodium layer (80-100 km) [Fricke and von Zahn, 1989; Senft et al., 1994]. An iron lidar has been proposed to use the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of electronic states in two resonance lines to measure temperatures in the same altitude region [Gelbwachs, 1994], However, higher altitudes remain inaccessible due to the lack of a suitable naturally occurring resonance scattering target. In this paper we examine the hyperfine structure of the barium ion (Ball) and consider lidar probing of an artificial barium ion cloud as a method of measuring temperature in the middle thermosphere (200-500 km).","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"338 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115462069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Friedman, P. Castleberg, Jyn Cho, C. Tepley, M. Kelley
{"title":"Absolute Frequency Wind Measurements for Doppler-Rayleigh Lidar","authors":"J. Friedman, P. Castleberg, Jyn Cho, C. Tepley, M. Kelley","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1995.tua2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1995.tua2","url":null,"abstract":"The Doppler-Rayleigh lidar at Arecibo Observatory has been in operation since May 1990 obtaining wind data in the region of the atmosphere between 10 and 60 km altitude where it is difficult to measure atmospheric properties by balloons, satellites, or radars. An injection-seeded Nd:YAG laser coupled with a Fabry-Perot etalon receiver are capable of giving a frequency resolution of about 20 MHz. The etalon is pressure tuned in discrete steps about the center frequency of the transmitter. To get the horizontal component of the wind vector, the laser is pointed 30° off the zenith to the north or south and to the east or west. A zero wind marker for reference is obtained by pointing the lidar vertically. It is assumed that vertical winds are substantially smaller than horizontal and not measurable by the lidar. Long term drifts in the center frequency caused by both drift in the seed laser and in the etalon receiver are compensated for by taking out the drift of the fringes measured in the vertical direction. This uncertainty in frequency drift of the system and the need to depend on the assumption of zero vertical wind velocities are weaknesses in the measurements, and they render the uncertainty of Doppler shift measurements to be much greater than 20 MHz.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115527076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheric Remote Sensing with the Eos Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer","authors":"D. Diner","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1990.md5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1990.md5","url":null,"abstract":"The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) experiment is an Instrument Investigation selected for flight aboard the first NASA Earth Observing System polar platform, Eos-A. The purpose of the MISR investigation is to study the effects of geophysical processes and human activities on the Earth’s ecology and climate. Scientific objectives include study of the climatic and environmental impacts of atmospheric aerosols, characterization of heterogeneous cloud fields and their impact on the shortwave radiation budget, and investigation of biosphere-atmosphere interactions and ecosystem change. A detailed understanding of the causes and effects of regional and global change will require long-term monitoring of the Earth system. MISR is a unique component of the Eos instrument suite in that it will systematically acquire multispectral images of the angular reflectance signatures of terrestrial scenes. Theoretical simulations, ground-based measurements, and remotely-sensed observations of aerosol-laden atmospheres, cloud fields, and vegetated landscapes demonstrate the necessity of multi-angle data for climatological and biogeophysical studies. While the spectral coverage and resolution of nadir-viewing imaging spectrometers provide invaluable information on chemical composition, the angular variation of reflectance furnishes the means of inferring physical quantities related to geometric and optical structure, radiative energy transfer, and biosphere-atmosphere mass exchange.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115539002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}