McGill Matthew, Hlavka Dennis, Hart William, Scott V Stanley, Spinhirne James, Schmid Beat
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
Appl Opt. 2002 Jun 20;41(18):3725-34. doi: 10.1364/ao.41.003725.
The new Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) has been built for use on the NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft. The purpose of the CPL is to provide multiwavelength measurements of cirrus, subvisual cirrus, and aerosols with high temporal and spatial resolution. The CPL utilizes state-of-the-art technology with a high repetition rate, a low-pulse-energy laser, and photon-counting detection. The first deployment for the CPL was the Southern African Regional Science Initiative's 2000 field campaign during August and September 2000. We provide here an overview of the instrument and initial data results to illustrate the measurement capability of the CPL.
新型云物理激光雷达（CPL）已制造完成，用于美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的ER - 2高空飞机。CPL的目的是对卷云、亚可见卷云和气溶胶进行多波长测量，具备高时间和空间分辨率。CPL采用了具有高重复率、低脉冲能量激光器和光子计数检测的先进技术。CPL的首次部署是在2000年8月和9月的南部非洲区域科学倡议2000年野外考察活动中。我们在此提供该仪器的概述和初始数据结果，以说明CPL的测量能力。
