89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Poster Session 1: Poster: Advances in Lidar Applications

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chairs:  Belay B. Demoz, Howard University; Jennifer Comstock, PNNL and Andreas Behrendt, University of Hohenheim
Papers:
 
Potential for lidar measurements of scattering coefficient profiles in thick clouds
Tamas Varnai, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. F. Cahalan and A. Marshak

 
Calculation of turbulence intensity based on spectrum width data of a Doppler LIDAR
C.C. Wong, University of Hong Kong, ; and P. W. Chan, K. Akaeda, and H. Mizuno

Poster PDF (772.1 kB)
 
The Astronomical Lidar for Extinction (ALE): High cadence precision measurements of nighttime scattering and absorption
Peter Zimmer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and J. T. McGraw, G. Gimmestad, D. W. Roberts, J. Smith, and J. Fitch

 
Water vapor transport within the atmospheric boundary layer from Raman lidar, radiosondes, wind profiler, and tower observations
Mariana Adam, Howard University, Washington, DC; and T. Dejene, M. Hicks, M. Robjhon, B. B. Demoz, J. D. Fuentes, E. Joseph, D. Venable, and R. Connell

 
Lidar algorithms for the EarthCARE satellite
Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and D. P. Donovan

 
Lidar Polar Stratospheric Clouds studies in Antarctica using the “MATCH” method during the International Polar Year
Christine David, Service d'Aeronomie-IPSL, Paris, France; and A. Klekociuk, M. C. Pitts, M. Snels, L. Di Liberto, C. Stark, J. Jumelet, and P. Keckhut

 
Remote retrieval of cumulus cloud entrainment rates
Timothy J. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. D. Turner and S. A. Ackerman

 
Adapting the microspulse LIDAR for use as a reference for cloud measurement
Aaron J. Poyer, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and R. Lewis

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
 
Evaluation of the CT25KT Vaisala Ceilometer and its uses in dynamics meteorological studies
Belay B. Demoz, Howard University, Washington, DC; and M. Adam and K. Vermeesch

 
4DVAR analysis of the wind field based on Doppler LIDAR data
Frank Yu, Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, Kensington WA, , Australia; and P. W. Chan

Poster PDF (211.9 kB)
 
 
Assessment of space based DWL in Joint OSSE
Michiko Masutani, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and G. D. Emmitt, G. J. Marseille, A. Stoffelen, S. Greco, S. A. Wood, E. Andersson, E. Brin, A. Da Silva, M. J. McGill, J. Woollen, and L. P. Riishojgaard

 
High Performance Micropulse Lidar to Support Ground Based Astronomy
D.W. Roberts, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA; and J. M. Stewart, G. G. Gimmestad, P. Zimmer, J. T. McGraw, J. Smith, and J. Fitch

 
Boundary layer turbulence measurements via Raman lidar water vapor detection
Erin P. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. D. Turner