Study and mitigation of calibration factor instabilities in a water vapor Raman lidar

David, Leslie; Bock, Olivier; Thom, Christian; Bosser, Pierre; Pelon, Jacques

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2745-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2745-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2745-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 7

Research article

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31 Jul 2017

Research article |

| 31 Jul 2017

Study and mitigation of calibration factor instabilities in a water vapor Raman lidar

Leslie David, Olivier Bock, Christian Thom, Pierre Bosser, and Jacques Pelon

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RC1: 'Review of the paper amt-2016-187 by Leslie David, Olivier Bock, Christian Thom, Pierre Bosser, and Jacques Pelon', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Leslie David, 28 Feb 2017
RC2: 'Review of “Study and mitigation of calibration error sources in a water vapor Raman lidar” by David et al.', David Whiteman, 18 Nov 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Leslie David, 28 Feb 2017

Short summary

The Raman lidar ability to retrieve atmospheric water vapor with high accuracy makes it a premium instrument in different research fields such as climatology, meteorology, or calibration of GNSS altimetry data. In order to achieve long-term stability of the measurements, the system has to be carefully calibrated. In this work we strove to investigate and mitigate the error and instability sources through numerical simulations as well as experimental tests.