S. M. Bobrovnikov, L. A. Bolbasova, E. V. Gorlov, V. I. Zharkov, V. P. Lukin
{"title":"Efficiency of Resonance and Cascade Schemes of Fluorescence Excitation in Atoms in Mesosphere for Laser Guide Star Creation. Part II. Iron Atoms","authors":"S. M. Bobrovnikov, L. A. Bolbasova, E. V. Gorlov, V. I. Zharkov, V. P. Lukin","doi":"10.1134/S1024856025700186","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1024856025700186","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A laser guide star (LGS) is an essential part of the adaptive optics system of a ground-based optical telescope. The main limitation of sodium LGSs, formed on the basis of the resonant fluorescence of mesospheric sodium atoms is low brightness. To estimate a possibility of creating LGS based on the fluorescence of other metals in the mesosphere, the efficiency of fluorescence excitation schemes for iron atoms is calculated. The relative inverse fluorescence flux for transitions of iron atoms is calculated taking into account their content in the mesosphere and the transmittance of the atmosphere. The comparison with the results for sodium, nickel, and potassium atoms is made. Our results can be used for the development of adaptive optics systems with artificial reference sources for ground-based telescopes and mesospheric lidars.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"372 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145164893","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":"The Relation of Density and Temperature Fluctuations to the Kinetic Energy of Turbulence in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer","authors":"V. P. Yushkov","doi":"10.1134/S1024856025700034","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1024856025700034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is shown that the development of the turbulence theory should aim at studying not only incompressible vortex component but also the adiabatic one, first of all, pressure and density fluctuations. The intensity of the pressure fluctuations in a turbulent flow is compared with fluctuations of the potentially available energy of Lagrangian particles. An equation linking the smoothing of entropy fluctuations with the generation rate of adiabatic fluctuations is proposed. The rate constant of entropy fluctuation smoothing is estimated from measurements in the atmospheric boundary layer. This constant allows one to relate the integral spatial scale of turbulent vortices to the standard deviation of the sound speed fluctuations in the atmospheric boundary layer. Estimates of the adiabatic noise amplitude in a turbulent medium are constructed and the relation between its energy and the correlation time of the vortex velocity fluctuations is shown.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"249 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145164909","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}
A. V. Konoshonkin, N. V. Kustova, V. A. Shishko, D. N. Timofeev, A. E. Babinovich, Xuanhao Zhu, Zhenzhu Wang, Dong Liu, Yingjian Wang
{"title":"Optical Model of Cirrus Clouds with Preferentially Oriented Particles for Lidar Applications","authors":"A. V. Konoshonkin, N. V. Kustova, V. A. Shishko, D. N. Timofeev, A. E. Babinovich, Xuanhao Zhu, Zhenzhu Wang, Dong Liu, Yingjian Wang","doi":"10.1134/S1024856025700113","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1024856025700113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cirrus clouds are currently under close attention since they play an important role in the formation of the Earth’s climate. They are mainly studied through laser sounding of the atmosphere. The interpretation of laser sounding data requires an adequate optical model of cirrus clouds. However, most existing optical models are developed assuming a random spatial orientation of particles, which, according to recent experimental data, is often inaccurate. We suggest an optical model of cirrus clouds which considers the preferential horizontal orientation of particles within a cloud. The model includes ideal hexagonal plates and columns and hollow columns as quasi-horizontally oriented particles; it additionally incorporates hexagonal plates and columns, droxtalls and bullets, irregularly shaped particles, and aggregates of such particles as randomly oriented particles. The results are crucial for developing lidar data interpretation algorithms for studying cirrus clouds.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"308 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134/S1024856025700113.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145165606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu. Yu. Kulikov, V. I. Demin, V. M. Demkin, A. S. Kirillov, A. V. Losev, V. G. Ryskin
{"title":"Dynamic Phenomena in Stratospheric and Mesospheric Ozone of Polar Atmosphere in February–March 2023","authors":"Yu. Yu. Kulikov, V. I. Demin, V. M. Demkin, A. S. Kirillov, A. V. Losev, V. G. Ryskin","doi":"10.1134/S1024856025700071","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1024856025700071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Microwave measurements of ozone were performed in the middle atmosphere over Apatity (67° N, 33° E) in winter 2022/2023, during a period of high solar activity in solar cycle 25, with the use of a mobile ozonometer with an operating frequency of 110.8 GHz. The device had a single-sideband noise temperature of 2500 K, which made it possible to measure variations in O<sub>3</sub> in the middle atmosphere with a 15-min resolution. The ozone vertical profiles at altitudes of 22–60 km were retrieved and compared with MLS/Aura satellite vertical profiles of ozone and temperature. The behavior of ozone in February–March 2023 is analyzed. Ozone variations took place during the sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) which occurred in mid-February and was accompanied by an extraordinary increase in the total ozone content (TOC) from 240 to 500 DU. The limits of ozone variations at altitudes of 25, 40, and 60 km are given. The effect of the strong geomagnetic disturbance (storm), which took place on March 23–24, on the daily variations in ozone at an altitude of 60 km is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"283 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145164905","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}
E. S. Nagovitsyna, A. P. Luzhetskaya, V. A. Poddubny
{"title":"Classification of Atmospheric Aerosols based on Photometric Measurements and Empirical Regional Model MUrA","authors":"E. S. Nagovitsyna, A. P. Luzhetskaya, V. A. Poddubny","doi":"10.1134/S1024856025700046","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1024856025700046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Classification of atmospheric aerosols is significant in evaluating the influence of aerosols on the climate system, identifying aerosol sources, and improving aerosol satellite retrieval algorithms. There are different ways of classifying aerosol particles, but most of them do not take into account regional characteristics. We suggest an approach to classification of main aerosol types by the spectral values of aerosol optical depth by the method of <i>k</i>-medians based on archival AERONET photometric observations in the Middle Urals. The spectral values of extinction coefficients calculated with the use of MOPSMAP software from data of MUrA regional aerosol model and CALIPSO global model were defined as initial centers of clusters. Five aerosol types were identified: dust, clean continental (background), polluted continental/smoke, polluted dust, and elevated smoke. The analysis of data for 2004–2012 has shown clean continental and dust aerosols to be most common in the Middle Urals (26 and 25% of observations, respectively), and the percentage of polluted continental/smoke aerosol to be 20%. The suggested approach makes it possible to determine the predominant aerosol type at an observation site, thus significantly supplementing the information received by ground-based spectral photometric measurements.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"259 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145164910","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}
I. D. Musikhin, V. V. Kapustin, A. Movchan, E. S. Poznakharev, M. I. Kuryachy, A. A. Tislenko, S. A. Zabuga
{"title":"Influence of Inhomogeneous Optical Radiation Propagation Media on the Accuracy of Space Depth Mapping by Multizone Active-Pulse Television Measuring Systems","authors":"I. D. Musikhin, V. V. Kapustin, A. Movchan, E. S. Poznakharev, M. I. Kuryachy, A. A. Tislenko, S. A. Zabuga","doi":"10.1134/S1024856025700022","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1024856025700022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The range of detecting objects in inhomogeneous optical radiation propagation media by television measuring systems decreases under the effect of backscattering interference (BI). Active-pulse television measuring systems (AP TMS) enables suppressing a significant part of BI. However, the residual effect on the range measurement accuracy requires estimation. The paper estimates the BI effect on the forms of range measuring functions of AP TMS. Methods for retrieving the form of the AP TMS range measuring function in turbid media have been developed. To minimize the BI effect, a method of calculating and subtracting coefficients and a method of removing the constant component of a spectrum are suggested. The proposed methods were tested with 30 experimental video records obtained in a Large Aerosol Chamber (LAC) of V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, for two multiarea range measurement methods and five meteorological media. The best result was achieved when applying the method of calculating and subtracting coefficients to video records when AP TMS operated in the multiarea range measuring mode: the SD was reduced by 4.5 times on average.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"239 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145165327","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}
O. A. Romanovskii, S. V. Yakovlev, S. A. Sadovnikov, A. A. Nevzorov, A. V. Nevzorov, O. V. Kharchenko, N. S. Kravtsova, Yu. V. Kistenev
{"title":"Ground-based Stationary Differential Absorption Lidars for Monitoring Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere","authors":"O. A. Romanovskii, S. V. Yakovlev, S. A. Sadovnikov, A. A. Nevzorov, A. V. Nevzorov, O. V. Kharchenko, N. S. Kravtsova, Yu. V. Kistenev","doi":"10.1134/S1024856025700150","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1024856025700150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Natural and anthropogenic increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere is currently considered a determining factor in climate change and global warming. In this regard, there is an urgent need for the development of new techniques for remote monitoring of greenhouse gases with high spatiotemporal resolution and accuracy. Remote laser (lidar) systems enable more accurate and of higher information content measurements of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases in comparison with standard contact gas analysis methods. The characteristics and description of differential lidars for monitoring methane, carbon dioxide, water vapor, ozone, and other gas components are given. The results of the development of ground-based stationary differential absorption lidar systems for remote monitoring of key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the past 25 years are systematized and analyzed. This review can be useful for specialists who design systems for remote gas analysis of the atmosphere.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"345 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145165323","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":"Monte Carlo Simulation of Polarized Signals of a Laser Navigation System","authors":"E. G. Kablukova, V. G. Oshlakov, S. M. Prigarin","doi":"10.1134/S1024856025700125","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1024856025700125","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Algorithms for stochastic simulation of a polarized signal arriving at a photodetector of an aircraft laser navigation system are developed. The angular distributions of Stokes parameters of radiation recorded by the detector are estimated by a Monte Carlo method; the effect of different-order scattering on the total recorded signal and polarization degree is analyzed. The signal intensity is calculated with the use of linear polarization filters. The suggested algorithms enable estimating the efficiency of the laser navigation system taking into account radiation polarization under different weather conditions and a possibility of enhancing signal contrast by using the polarization filters.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"317 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145164908","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}
Yu. S. Balin, G. P. Kokhanenko, M. G. Klemasheva, S. V. Nasonov, M. M. Novoselov, I. E. Penner
{"title":"Phytoplankton Concentration Distribution in the Kara Sea According to Aircraft Laser Sounding Data","authors":"Yu. S. Balin, G. P. Kokhanenko, M. G. Klemasheva, S. V. Nasonov, M. M. Novoselov, I. E. Penner","doi":"10.1134/S102485602570006X","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S102485602570006X","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The spatial distribution of the relative concentration of chlorophyll-<i>a</i> in surface waters was estimated at three sites in the southwestern region of the Kara Sea based on laser-induced fluorescence measurements with an aircraft lidar. The fluorescence intensity was normalized to the simultaneously recorded intensity of Raman scattering signals from water. For two sites in the shelf zone near the western coast of the Yamal Peninsula, the spatial distribution of the normalized fluorescence intensity <i>Cl</i> is quite homogeneous, with variation coefficients of 9 and 15%. The third site in the northern tip of the Yamal Peninsula is strongly affected by river runoff, which is manifested in the presence of sharp frontal zones 5–10 km long. At this site, the <i>Cl</i> variation coefficient attains 40%, and the variations are mainly due to the strong variability of the Raman signals and, to a much lesser extent, to variations in the fluorescence intensity. Factors influencing the variability of Raman signals are considered. Synchronous shipboard <i>in-situ</i> measurements and remote aircraft measurements enabled us to find the calibration coefficient <i>k</i><sub><i>Cl</i></sub> = 1.03 ± 0.09 μg/L for the first two sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"273 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145165604","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":"Laser Transillumination Study of Supersonic Jets","authors":"D. A. Marakasov, A. A. Sukharev, R. Sh. Tsvyk","doi":"10.1134/S1024856025700149","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1024856025700149","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contactless laser transillumination method is promising for studying the flow structure in turbulent supersonic jets. However, interpretation of the experimental results is a nontrivial task, especially in terms of turbulence, due to the spatial inhomogeneity of the fields of gas-dynamic characteristics. In this work, the spectral composition of turbulence in axially symmetric jets in the root region (before closing mixing layers) is analyzed based on laser sensing results. Intensity fluctuations of a laser beam propagating through a submerged supersonic jet are experimentally studied. The spectral density of the power of the fluctuations fully corresponds to the known experimental and calculated spectra for a moving turbulent medium, with the exception of the high-frequency range, where the spectrum is a superposition of two exponential components: the first is close to the known value −14/3 and the second is lower. This is shown to be due to the difference in motion speeds and the structure of vortex flows in the external and internal regions of the mixing layers. The results can be used in calculations of gas-dynamic characteristics and the acoustic emission of jet engines.</p>","PeriodicalId":46751,"journal":{"name":"Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics","volume":"38 3","pages":"336 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145165045","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}