Field-deployable diode-laser-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL) for profiling water vapor

Spuler, S. M.; Repasky, K. S.; Morley, B.; Moen, D.; Hayman, M.; Nehrir, A. R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1073-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1073-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1073-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

Research article

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04 Mar 2015

Research article |

| 04 Mar 2015

Field-deployable diode-laser-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL) for profiling water vapor

S. M. Spuler, K. S. Repasky, B. Morley, D. Moen, M. Hayman, and A. R. Nehrir

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Final revised paper (published on 04 Mar 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 18 Nov 2014)

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Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C4129: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Dec 2014
RC C4132: 'Extension of review', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Dec 2014
AC C4460: 'Error in equation 5', Scott Spuler, 06 Jan 2015
AC C4465: 'Error in equation 5', Scott Spuler, 06 Jan 2015
SC C4720: 'Review of AMT-2014-276 submitted on 26 Aug 2014', Syed Ismail, 22 Jan 2015
- RC C4728: 'Comments', Syed Ismail, 26 Jan 2015

Short summary

A water vapor lidar has been designed and tested which has the potential to enable a national-scale network. The system is low-maintenance, low-cost, eye-safe, and provides continuous profiles of water vapor with complete coverage, including periods of daytime bright clouds, from 300m above ground level to 4km with 150m nominal vertical resolution and 1 min temporal resolution. The sensor may be useful in improving our understanding of the distribution of atmospheric water vapor.