First Observations of Cirrus Clouds Using the UZ Mie Lidar over uMhlathuze City, South Africa

Mie LIDAR Observations of Tropospheric Aerosol over Wuhan

Wuhan is a rapidly developing large city in central China. To analyze the aerosol characteristics over Wuhan, the optical properties of the nocturnal aerosol layers in the lower troposphere were observed using a ground-based LIDAR(Light Detection And Ranging) located in the Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS) from Wuhan University, China (11...

First Lidar Observations of Middle Atmosphere Temperatures, Fe Densities, and Polar Mesospheric Clouds Over the North and South Poles

An Fe Boltzmann temperature lidar was used to obtain the first measurements of middle atmosphere temperatures, Fe densities, and polar mesospheric louds (PMCs) over the North and South Poles during the 1999-2000 summer seasons. The measured temperature structure of the mesopause and lower thermosphere regions in mid-summer at both Poles is consistent with the MSIS90 model. The density profiles ...

Optical and geometrical characteristics of cirrus clouds over a Southern European lidar station

Optical and geometrical characteristics of cirrus clouds over Thessaloniki, Greece (40.6 N, 22.9 E) have been determined from the analysis of lidar and radiosonde measurements performed during the period from 2000 to 2006. Cirrus clouds are generally observed in a mid-altitude region ranging from 8.6 to 13 km, with mid-cloud temperatures in the range from −65 to −38C. The cloud thickness genera...

Optical and geometrical characteristics of cirrus clouds over a mid-latitude lidar station

Long-term trend analysis and climatology of tropical cirrus clouds using 16 years of lidar data set over Southern India

Sixteen-year (1998–2013) climatology of cirrus clouds and their macrophysical (base height, top height and geometrical thickness) and optical properties (cloud optical thickness) observed using a ground-based lidar over Gadanki (13.5 N, 79.2 E), India, is presented. The climatology obtained from the ground-based lidar is compared with the climatology obtained from 7 and a half years (June 2006–...