{"title":"Pressure and Temperature Retrievals From the SAGE III/Eos Measurements","authors":"W. Chu, J. Larsen, M. McCormick","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1990.mb3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1990.mb3","url":null,"abstract":"The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) instrument will be an updated version of the SAGE series of flight instruments which have successfully operated on various spacecraft platforms for remote sensing of the atmosphere utilizing the solar occultation technique. SAGE III has been selected for the definition phase study (phase A/B) for the National Polar Platform One (NPOP1) and the Space Station Attached Pay load (SSAP) of the Environmental Observatory System (Eos) Mission in the late 1990’s. The SAGE III instrument follows a long heritage of successful flight missions such as the SAM II, SAGE I, and SAGE II missions in producing global data sets of stratospheric aerosol, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and water vapor. One of the unique characteristics of the SAGE III instrument is the ability to provide measurements of oxygen A-band absorption at the 760 nm spectral region. Oxygen A-band absorption measurements will provide independent pressure and temperature data for the retrieval of other constituents as measured by the SAGE III instrument.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"20 S2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132390252","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":"Comparison of Sage II and Umkehr Ozone Profiles as Functions of Stratospheric Optical Depth, Total Ozone, Season, and Tropopause Height","authors":"M. Newchurch, D. Cunnold","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1990.pd5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1990.pd5","url":null,"abstract":"Comparison of SAGE II and Umkehr ozone at 9 northern stations indicates significant differences in various layers as functions of station, stratospheric aerosol optical depth, total ozone, season, and tropopause height.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"170 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":"132530688","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":"Broadening of birefringent filter transmission bandwidth due to incident beam divergence","authors":"A. Notari, H. S. Lee","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1991.othb6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1991.othb6","url":null,"abstract":"Multistage birefringent filters have been employed for use as output frequency tuners in solid state and dye lasers. Our work with these devices has shown that the output pass band of the filter has a full width at half maximum (FWHM) on the order of 10Å, while theoretically one would expect it to be on the order of 1Å for a collimated beam. We have conducted a computer simulation study of the transmission characteristics of these filters and have found that a divergent beam will have a broader transmission curve than a nondivergent beam, and have determined the tolerance for divergence to produce an acceptably narrow pass band. We have found that a higher-order transverse mode pattern can produce a complicated transmission profile. We have also studied the effect of misalignment of individual stages in the filter to determine the tolerances in alignment of the stages. The temperature stability required to maintain the transmission peak wavelength of the filter within an allowable range has been obtained.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"1 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":"129967500","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":"Spectral Calibration of the Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder","authors":"P. E. Morris, F. Taylor, J. Ballard","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1993.pd.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1993.pd.10","url":null,"abstract":"The Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS) is a limb-viewing infrared radiometer which measures thermal emission in 24 spectral bands, using both wideband (WB) and pressure modulator radiometer (PMR) techniques (Taylor, 1983). This enables the daily mapping over much of the Earth of temperature, the concentrations of 8 chemical species (water vapour, methane, ozone, nitric acid, nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, dinitrogen pentoxide, carbon monoxide) and aerosol opacity in the stratosphere and mesosphere. The instrument has eight separate focal planes, each consisting of a 4-element detector array, which are cooled by two mechanical coolers.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"21 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":"130236844","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. Takeuchi, H. Okumura, T. Sugita, H. Matsumoto, S. Kuwashima, S. Yamaguchi
{"title":"Observation of Sea Fog Incursion with a Diode-Pumped YAG Portable Lidar","authors":"N. Takeuchi, H. Okumura, T. Sugita, H. Matsumoto, S. Kuwashima, S. Yamaguchi","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1993.tud.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1993.tud.23","url":null,"abstract":"A portable lidar system has been strongly desired for the measurement of local area air pollution, boundary layer meteorology, plume dispersion and cloud physics. However, so far a compact and convenient lidar system has not been well developed. One of the authors constructed a pseudorandom code lidar (RM-CW lidar) system using a diode laser as a light source[1]. It has a limited performance due to the limited power. We proposed and presented a new system[2-3] based on a high repetitive operation, where we adopted a whole solid system using of a Q-switched diode-pumped YAG laser and an avalanche photodiode(APD). Here we report its application to a sea fog observation.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"74 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":"134521181","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}
X. Liu, H. Nakajima, I. Murata, Y. Kondo, F. Murcray, Y. Zhao, M. Koike, H. Nakane
{"title":"Retrieval of vertical profiles of ozone by high-resolution FTIR spectra over Rikubetsu, Japan","authors":"X. Liu, H. Nakajima, I. Murata, Y. Kondo, F. Murcray, Y. Zhao, M. Koike, H. Nakane","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1997.ofa.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1997.ofa.4","url":null,"abstract":"Vertical profiles of volume mixing ratios (VMRs) of ozone were retrieved from high resolution, infrared solar absorption spectra taken at Rikubetsu (43.5 °N, 143.8 °E), Japan by a ground-based Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR). The VMR profile retrieval is based on an iterative inversion algorithm, which utilizes a multilayer line-by-line calculations. In total, 96 ozone vertical profiles were retrieved from 48 infrared spectra by using two O3 absorption lines near 10 micron spectral region. These profiles were compared with 21 ozonesonde measurements from nearby ozone sounding stations. The two micro-window regions used for O3 profile retrievals are 1146 cm-1 and 1163 cm-1 spectral regions. Averaged discrepancies were less than ±15 % above 8 km for 1146 cm-1 retrievals, while those were less than ±11 % between 16 and 36 km for 1163 cm-1 retrievals. The standard deviation (SD) of averaged discrepancies were less than ±17 % between 16 and 36 km for 1146 cm-1 retrievals, while those were less than ±12 % between 16 and 36 km for 1163 cm-1 retrievals. In general, O3 VMR profile retrieval gives agreements within ±17 % in SD with ozonesonde measurements between 16 and 36 km altitudes.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"241 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":"133886370","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}
W. Eichinger, D. Cooper, D. Holtkamp, R. Karl, C. R. Quick, J. Tiee
{"title":"Atmospheric Measurements Using A Scanning, Solar-Blind, Raman Lidar","authors":"W. Eichinger, D. Cooper, D. Holtkamp, R. Karl, C. R. Quick, J. Tiee","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1991.owb2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1991.owb2","url":null,"abstract":"The study of the water cycle by Lidar has many applications. Because micro-scale structures can be identified by their water content, the technique offers new opportunities to visualize and study the phenomena. There are applications to many practical problems in agricultural and water management as well as at waste storage sites. Conventional point sensors are limited and are inappropriate for use in complex terrain or varied vegetation and cannot be extrapolated over even modest ranges. To this end, techniques must be developed to measure the variables associated with evapotranspirative processes over large areas and varied surface conditions. A scanning water-Raman Lidar is an ideal tool for this task in that it can measure the water vapor concentration rapidly with high spatial resolution without influencing the measurements by the presence of the sensor. The solar-blind water-Raman Lidar used in this experiment is based upon the technique pioneered by Cooney1. Operational parameters of the Lidar are described in Table 1.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"54 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":"134312853","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":"Raman Lidar Measurement of the Atmospheric Aerosol Extinction Profile","authors":"M. Riebesell, A. Ansmann, C. Weitkamp","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1990.tud9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1990.tud9","url":null,"abstract":"The remote, yet depth-resolved measurement of atmospheric aerosol profiles has been the first application of a family of techniques now generally known as lidar.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"30 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":"134321887","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":"Noise Reduction in a Sequence of Limb Emission Spectra by Fourier Filtering of Spectral Radiance Profiles","authors":"T. Clarmann, H. Oelhaf, H. Fischer","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1990.md4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1990.md4","url":null,"abstract":"A sequence of atmospheric spectra measured in limb sounding mode is often evaluated by using the onion peeling method. A major disadvantage of onion peeling is that instabilities are caused by error propagation. Resulting profiles of minor constituents of the atmosphere show typical zigzag features. By appropriate preprocessing of measured noisy data, the applicability of the onion-peeling-method can be improved.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"15 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":"133080815","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}
R. Ferrare, T. Mcgee, D. Whiteman, J. Butler, J. Burris
{"title":"Lidar Measurements of Stratospheric Ozone During the Presence of an Anomalous Aerosol Profile","authors":"R. Ferrare, T. Mcgee, D. Whiteman, J. Butler, J. Burris","doi":"10.1364/orsa.1990.wd12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/orsa.1990.wd12","url":null,"abstract":"This report briefly describes the ozone measurements made by the NASA/GSFC ozone lidar during an unusual case of locally high stratospheric aerosol loading. In this case, the high aerosol loading was associated with the plume from a Titan rocket launched from Vandenburg, AFB, which is about 200 km west-northwest of the JPL/Table Mountain Observatory, where the GSFC lidar was located on the night of November 6-7, 1988. The procedures which were used to determine the aerosol profile from the lidar data and to subsequently derive the ozone concentrations using this profile are presented.","PeriodicalId":320202,"journal":{"name":"Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere","volume":"1 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":"130871051","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}