Global Estimation of Range Resolved Thermodynamic Profiles from MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidar
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| author | Hayman, Matthew Stillwell, Robert A. Karboski, Adam Marais, Willem J. Spuler, Scott M. |
| author_facet | Hayman, Matthew Stillwell, Robert A. Karboski, Adam Marais, Willem J. Spuler, Scott M. |
| contents | We demonstrate thermodynamic profile estimation with data obtained using the MicroPulse DIAL such that the retrieval is entirely self contained. The only external input is surface meteorological variables obtained from a weather station installed on the instrument. The estimator provides products of temperature, absolute humidity and backscatter ratio such that cross dependencies between the lidar data products and raw observations are accounted for and the final products are self consistent. The method described here is applied to a combined oxygen DIAL, potassium HSRL, water vapor DIAL system operating at two pairs of wavelengths (nominally centered at 770 and 828 nm). We perform regularized maximum likelihood estimation through the Poisson Total Variation technique to suppress noise and improve the range of the observations. A comparison to 119 radiosondes indicates that this new processing method produces improved temperature retrievals, reducing total errors to less than 2 K below 3 km altitude and extending the maximum altitude of temperature retrievals to 5 km with less than 3 K error. The results of this work definitively demonstrates the potential for measuring temperature through the oxygen DIAL technique and furthermore that this can be accomplished with low-power semiconductor-based lidar sensors. |
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| spellingShingle | Global Estimation of Range Resolved Thermodynamic Profiles from MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidar Hayman, Matthew Stillwell, Robert A. Karboski, Adam Marais, Willem J. Spuler, Scott M. Signal Processing Optics We demonstrate thermodynamic profile estimation with data obtained using the MicroPulse DIAL such that the retrieval is entirely self contained. The only external input is surface meteorological variables obtained from a weather station installed on the instrument. The estimator provides products of temperature, absolute humidity and backscatter ratio such that cross dependencies between the lidar data products and raw observations are accounted for and the final products are self consistent. The method described here is applied to a combined oxygen DIAL, potassium HSRL, water vapor DIAL system operating at two pairs of wavelengths (nominally centered at 770 and 828 nm). We perform regularized maximum likelihood estimation through the Poisson Total Variation technique to suppress noise and improve the range of the observations. A comparison to 119 radiosondes indicates that this new processing method produces improved temperature retrievals, reducing total errors to less than 2 K below 3 km altitude and extending the maximum altitude of temperature retrievals to 5 km with less than 3 K error. The results of this work definitively demonstrates the potential for measuring temperature through the oxygen DIAL technique and furthermore that this can be accomplished with low-power semiconductor-based lidar sensors. |
| title | Global Estimation of Range Resolved Thermodynamic Profiles from MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidar |
| topic | Signal Processing Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17895 |