The improvement of lidar analysis through non-linear regression
Lidars are ideally placed to investigate the effects of aerosol and cloud on the climate system due to their unprecedented vertical and temporal resolution. Dozens of techniques have been developed in recent decades to retrieve the extinction and backscatter of atmospheric particulates in a variety...
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2012
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| author | Povey, A Grainger, R Peters, D Agnew, J Rees, D |
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| description | Lidars are ideally placed to investigate the effects of aerosol and cloud on the climate system due to their unprecedented vertical and temporal resolution. Dozens of techniques have been developed in recent decades to retrieve the extinction and backscatter of atmospheric particulates in a variety of conditions. These methods, though often very successful, are fairly ad hoc in their construction, utilising a wide variety of approximations and assumptions that makes comparing the resulting data products with independent measurements difficult and their implementation in climate modelling virtually impossible. As with its application to satellite retrievals, the methods of non-linear regression can improve this situation by providing a mathematical framework in which the various approximations, estimates of experimental error, and any additional knowledge of the atmosphere can be clearly defined and included in a mathematically ‘optimal’ retrieval method, providing rigorously derived error estimates. In addition to making it easier for scientists outside of the lidar field to understand and utilise lidar data, it also simplifies the process of moving beyond extinction and backscatter coefficients and retrieving microphysical properties of aerosols and cloud particles. Such methods have been applied to a prototype Raman lidar system. A technique to estimate the lidar’s overlap function using an analytic model of the optical system and a simple extinction profile has been developed. This is used to calibrate the system such that a retrieval of the profile extinction and backscatter coefficients can be performed using the elastic and nitrogen Raman backscatter signals. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:113ee6e4-a583-4757-b804-1bea733205a32022-03-26T10:01:18ZThe improvement of lidar analysis through non-linear regressionConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:113ee6e4-a583-4757-b804-1bea733205a3Symplectic Elements at OxfordUniversità degli studi dell'Aquila2012Povey, AGrainger, RPeters, DAgnew, JRees, DLidars are ideally placed to investigate the effects of aerosol and cloud on the climate system due to their unprecedented vertical and temporal resolution. Dozens of techniques have been developed in recent decades to retrieve the extinction and backscatter of atmospheric particulates in a variety of conditions. These methods, though often very successful, are fairly ad hoc in their construction, utilising a wide variety of approximations and assumptions that makes comparing the resulting data products with independent measurements difficult and their implementation in climate modelling virtually impossible. As with its application to satellite retrievals, the methods of non-linear regression can improve this situation by providing a mathematical framework in which the various approximations, estimates of experimental error, and any additional knowledge of the atmosphere can be clearly defined and included in a mathematically ‘optimal’ retrieval method, providing rigorously derived error estimates. In addition to making it easier for scientists outside of the lidar field to understand and utilise lidar data, it also simplifies the process of moving beyond extinction and backscatter coefficients and retrieving microphysical properties of aerosols and cloud particles. Such methods have been applied to a prototype Raman lidar system. A technique to estimate the lidar’s overlap function using an analytic model of the optical system and a simple extinction profile has been developed. This is used to calibrate the system such that a retrieval of the profile extinction and backscatter coefficients can be performed using the elastic and nitrogen Raman backscatter signals. |
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