TY  - JOUR
AU  - Klanner, Lisa
AU  - Höveler, Katharina
AU  - Khordakova, Dina
AU  - Perfahl, Matthias
AU  - Rolf, Christian
AU  - Trickl, Thomas
AU  - Vogelmann, Hannes
TI  - A powerful lidar system capable of 1 h measurements of water vapour in the troposphere and the lower stratosphere as well as the temperature in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere
JO  - Atmospheric measurement techniques
VL  - 14
IS  - 1
SN  - 1867-8548
CY  - Katlenburg-Lindau
PB  - Copernicus
M1  - FZJ-2021-00855
SP  - 531 - 555
PY  - 2021
AB  - A high-power Raman lidar system has been installed at the high-altitude research station Schneefernerhaus (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany) at 2675 ma.s.l., at the side of an existing wide-range differential absorption lidar (DIAL). An industrial XeCl laser was modified for linearly polarized single-line operation at an average power of about 180 W. This high power and a 1.5 m diameter receiver allow us to extend the operating range for water-vapour sounding to 20 km for a measurement time of just 1 h, at an uncertainty level of the mixing ratio of 1 to 2 ppm. This was achieved for a vertical resolution varied between just 0.2 and 0.6 km in the stratosphere. The lidar was successfully validated with a balloon-borne cryogenic frost-point hygrometer (CFH). In addition, temperature measurements up to altitudes of around 87 km were demonstrated for 1 h of signal averaging. The system has been calibrated with the DIAL, the CFH and radiosondes.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000613896600001
DO  - DOI:10.5194/amt-14-531-2021
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890274
ER  -