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Airborne and ground based lidar measurements of the atmospheric pressure profile

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The first high accuracy remote measurements of the atmospheric pressure profile have been made. The measurements were made with a differential absorption lidar system that utilizes tunable alexandrite lasers. The absorption in the trough between two lines in the oxygen A-band near 760 nm was used for probing the atmosphere. Measurements of the 2-D structure of the pressure field were made in the troposphere from an aircraft looking down. Also, measurements of the 1-D structure were made from the ground looking up. Typical pressure accuracies for the aircraft measurements were 1.5–2 mbar with a 30-m vertical resolution and a 100-shot average (20 s), which corresponds to a 2-km horizontal resolution. Typical accuracies for the upward viewing ground based measurements were 2.0 mbar for a 30-m resolution and a 100-shot average.

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