Russell J. De Young

TL;DR: A compact, lightweight, and efficient fiber laser lidar system has been developed to measure water vapor profiles in the lower atmosphere of Earth or Mars and has made preliminary atmospheric measurements.

TL;DR: The Langley mobile ozone lidar system has been validated by numerous ozonesonde launches and has provided ozone curtain profiles from ground to approximately 4 km in support of air quality field missions.

TL;DR: Analysis of the intercomparison between the TROPOZ, TOPAZ, and LMOL lidars along with comparisons between the lidars and other in situ ozone instruments indicate very good measurement accuracy for these three TOLNet lidars, making them suitable for use in air quality, satellite validation, and ozone modeling efforts.

TL;DR: In this paper, an aerosol lidar system was deployed on the NASA DC-8 and used to measure aerosol vertical profiles in the California Central Valley, and the resulting aerosol profiles were plotted in a unique three-dimensional format that allowed the visual observation of the aerosol scattering ratio profiles, the valley topography, and corresponding backward trajectory air masses.

TL;DR: A new method to reduce photomultiplier tube detector signal-induced noise (SIN) in a lidar system is successfully demonstrated, and the effect of the metal ring voltage on the decay time constant and the magnitude of a simulated lidar signal is presented.