Category:elasticpolarizationlidar

This category uses the form Instrument.

URI: https://vocabulary.actris.nilu.no/actris vocab/elasticpolarizationlidar

label: elastic polarization lidar (en)

description: Instrument that transmits single-wavelength pulsed laser light into the atmosphere and collects the backscattered radiation at the laser wavelength. Furthermore, it can collect at least one of the backscattered polarization components of the linearly polarized emitted laser light. The system provides spatially resolved aerosol optical properties and aerosol geometrical features: i.e., layer height and thickness, aerosol backscatter coefficient at the laser wavelength using a priori assumptions and further ancillary information, and volume and particle depolarization ratios at the laser wavelength. (en)