title: Iodine-filter-based high spectral resolution lidar for atmospheric temperature measurements.
abstract: This paper presents a method for measuring atmosphere temperature profile using a single iodine filter as frequency discriminator. This high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL) is a system reconfigured with the transmitter of a mobile Doppler wind lidar and with a receiving subsystem redesigned to pass the backscattering optical signal through the iodine cell twice to filter out the aerosol scattering signal and to allow analysis of the molecular scattering spectrum, thus measuring temperatures. We report what are believed to be the first results of vertical temperature profiling from the ground to 16 km altitude by this lidar system (power-aperture product=0.35 Wm(2)). Concurrent observations of an L band radiosonde were carried out on June 14 and August 3, 2008, in good agreement with HSRL temperature profiles.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Ocean Remote Sensing, Ministry of Education of China, Ocean University of China,5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China.
authors.forename: Zhi-Shen
authors.initials: ZS
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: De-Cang
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Bi
authors.forename: Xiao-Quan
authors.initials: XQ
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Jin-Bao
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Rong-Zhong
authors.initials: RZ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhang-Jun
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chiao-Yao
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: She