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Effect of aerosol particle microstructure on cw Doppler lidar signal statistics

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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.

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