Category:multiwavelengthRamanpolarizationlidar

This category uses the form Instrument.

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

label: multiwavelength Raman polarization lidar (en)

description: Instrument that transmits multiple-wavelength pulsed laser light into the atmosphere and collects the backscattered radiation at the laser wavelengths as well as the backscattered radiation from the atmospheric nitrogen due to the frequency shift of the transmitted light for more than one of the laser wavelengths. 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 and extinction coefficient without reliance on a priori assumptions for more than one of the laser wavelengths, and volume and particle depolarization ratios at the laser wavelengths for which the instrument is equipped with polarization channels. (en)