Lidar simulations over hurricane Bonnie using CAMEX-3 data, a Lidar simulation model and numerical model anaylses

Fields provided by CSU's RAMS nested grid model and NCEP's Eta model are used by a Lidar Simulation Model to help describe the data coverage that could be provided by space-based versions of an airborne wind-detection lidar (i.e., MACAWS) and a water vapor/aerosol detecting lidar (i.e., LASE) over a hurricane or tropical storm. Hurricane Bonnie from August 1998 is used as the case study. Comparisons and additional independent analysis are made using the actual airborne wind and moisture measurements obtained by the LASE and MACAWS instruments as part of the CAMEX-3 field campaign missions which probed Hurricane Bonnie.