Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-817-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-817-2016
Research article
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03 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 03 Mar 2016

A generalised background correction algorithm for a Halo Doppler lidar and its application to data from Finland

Antti J. Manninen, Ewan J. O'Connor, Ville Vakkari, and Tuukka Petäjä

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Current commercially available Doppler lidars provide a cost-effective solution for measuring vertical and horizontal wind velocities, and the co- and cross-polarised backscatter profiles. However, the background noise behaviour becomes a limiting factor for the instrument sensitivity in low aerosol load regions. In this paper we present a correction method which can improve the data availability up to 50 % and greatly improves the calculation of turbulent properties in weak signal regimes.
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