title: Effect of aerosol particle microstructure on cw Doppler lidar signal statistics.
abstract: Analysis of signal statistical characteristics is carried out, and estimation errors of the radial wind velocity are calculated by use of numerical simulation of a cw Doppler lidar return, taking into account the atmospheric aerosol microstructure. It has been found that, at small sounded volume, the large particles contribute significantly to the scattered field. As a result the lidar return probability density function distribution can differ significantly from a Gaussian distribution. Neglect of the aerosol microstructure effect results in considerable underestimation of the error of cw Doppler lidar velocity estimates at small sounded volume.
authors: Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Akademicheskii 1, Tomsk 634055, Russia. banakh@iao.ru
authors: V A
authors: VA
authors: Banakh
authors: I N
authors: IN
authors: Smalikho
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Werner