Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2849-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2849-2020
Research article
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29 May 2020
Research article |  | 29 May 2020

Methodology for deriving the telescope focus function and its uncertainty for a heterodyne pulsed Doppler lidar

Pyry Pentikäinen, Ewan James O'Connor, Antti Juhani Manninen, and Pablo Ortiz-Amezcua

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We provide a methodology for obtaining a function describing how the Doppler lidar telescope configuration impacts the measurements. Together with the function itself, we also provide the uncertainties in the function, which propagate through to provide uncertainties in the geophysical quantities obtained from the measurements. The method can be used to determine how stable the instrument is over time and also identify if changes have been made in the instrument setup.
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