- 著者
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斉藤 保典
キンブイ チャン
デニス キリンジャー
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 レーザー学会
- 雑誌
- レーザー研究
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.22, no.3, pp.197-202, 1994
A 2.1 μm “eye-safe wavelength”, 25mJ/pulse (A/O Q-switching), 90ns/pulse Ho lidar systemhas been developed to measure atmospheric extinction coefficients, α, and backscatter coefficients, β. Range esolved values of α and β were obtained at ranges covering up to 1.5km forsevera 124 hour periods. The average values of α were on the order of 10<SUP>-3</SUP> to 10<SUP>-4</SUP>m<SUP>-1</SUP> and β values were estimated on the order of 10<SUP>-5</SUP> to 10<SUP>-6</SUP> m<SUP>-1</SUP> sr<SUP>-1</SUP>. The variation of β as a function ofrange was small during the period from night to early morning, but increased significantly duringthe later daytime hours. The values of β were somewhat higher from midnight to earlymorning than just after sunrise and then gradually decreased. β values exhibited good correlation with the atmospheric humidity. From these observations it was confirmed that thelidar system developed is a powerful apparatus for remote sensing of the atmosphere.