Abstract

A portable lidar system would be greatly desirable for the measurement of local area air pollution, boundary layer meteorology, plume dispersion, and cloud physics. However, so far, a compact and convenient lidar system has not been fully developed. One of the authors constructed a pseudo-random code lidar (RM-CW lidar) system using a diode laser as a light source. It has a limited performance capacity due to its limited power. We proposed and presented a new system P-SOLALIS (portable Solid-state atmospheric lidar system)^2,3 the P-SOLALIS is based on a highly-repetitive operation where we adopted a whole solid system using a Q-switched diode-pumped YAG laser and an avalanche photodiode(APD). Here we report its application to a sea fog observation.

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