Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Aerosol and Cloud Lidar | ROSCOE | Edward P. Nowottnick (PI) | NASA GSFC | WB-57 - JSC | Lidar | Aerosol Depolarization Ratio | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Nadir (directly downwards)
| 355 nm; 1064 nm | |||||
Aerosol Lidar | William Grant (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar | Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Depolarization Ratio | Vertical profile
| 15 m
| 532 nm; 1064 nm | ||||||
Airborne Coherent Lidar for Advanced In-flight Measurements | ACLAIM | Edward Teets (PI) | NASA AFRC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar | |||||||||
Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper Experiment | ALTM | Steve Young (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar | Topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
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Airborne Raman Ozone, Temperature, and Aerosol Lidar | AROTAL | Thomas J. McGee (PI) | NASA GSFC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar, Raman spectrometer | Temperature, , O3, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Depolarization Ratio | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards)
| 308 nm; 332 nm; 355 nm; 387 nm; 532 nm; 1064 nm | N2 Raman | ||||
Airborne Topographic Mapper | ATM | William Krabill (Prev PI) | NASA WFF | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, HU-25A Guardian - LaRC | Lidar | Topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 0.2 m (at 0.8 km)
| 532 nm | Pulsed at 5 kHz | |||
Broadband CO2 Lidar - 1.5 micron version | Nader Abuhassan (Co-I) | NASA GSFC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar | CO2 | In situ
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Cloud Lidar System | CLS | James Spinhirne (PI) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC | Lidar | Cloud Thickness | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 532 nm; 1064 nm | |||||
Cloud Physics Lidar | CPL | John Yorks (PI) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC, Global Hawk - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Lidar | Aerosol, Optical Depth, Particle size distribution | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 30 m
| 335 nm; 532 nm; 1064 nm | ||||
Compact Raman Lidar | CRL | Zhien Wang (PI) | CU Boulder | University of Wyoming King Air, NSF/NCAR C-130, WP-3D Orion - NOAA | Lidar | H2O, Temperature, Aerosol, and cloud profiles | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Nadir (directly downwards)
| 5 Hz
| 0.6 m
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Differential Absorption Lidar | DIAL | Johnathan W. Hair (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar | Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Depolarization Ratio, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth, O3 | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Nadir (directly downwards)
| 288 nm; 300 nm; 355 nm; 532 nm; 1064 nm | O3 | ||||
Doppler Aerosol WiNd Lidar | DAWN | Michael J. Kavaya (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC, B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC | Lidar | Line of Sight Wind Speed, Vector Wind Speed and Direction, Aerosol Backscattering | Vertical profile
| Conical scanning (angles: 30 deg nadir)
| 10 Hz
| 33 m
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High Altitude Lidar Observatory | HALO | Amin R. Nehrir (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8- AFRC, C-130- WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF, B200 - LARC, B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC, DC-8 - AFRC, Gulfstream V - JSC, Gulfstream III - LaRC | Lidar | water vapor profiles, methane columns and profiles, Aerosol Depolarization Ratio, Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Extinction | ||||||||
High Spectral Resolution Lidar | HSRL-1 | Chris Hostetler (Co-I) | NASA LaRC | B200 - LARC, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Lidar | Aerosol Depolarization Ratio, Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Extinction | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 532 nm; 1064 nm | aerosol backscatter, depolarization, and extinction | ||||
High Spectral Resolution Lidar 2 | HSRL-2 | Johnathan W. Hair (PI) | NASA LaRC | ER-2 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, B200 - LARC, B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC, Gulfstream V - JSC, Gulfstream III - LaRC | Lidar | Aerosol Depolarization Ratio, Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Extinction | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 0.1 Hz
| 15 m
| 355 nm; 532 nm; 1064 nm | |||
Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor | LVIS | J. Bryan Blair (PI) | NASA GSFC | B200 - LARC, C-130H - WFF, Cessna 402B, Citation, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Gulfstream III - LaRC, Gulfstream V - JSC, Gulfstream V - NSF, B200 - Dynamic Aviation | Lidar | Vegetation, Vegetation structure, surface topography, ice and sea ice elevations, ocean surface topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 2000 m (at 10 km)
| 20 m (at 10 km)
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Lidar Atmosphere Sensing Experiment | LASE | Amin R. Nehrir (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Lidar | H2O, Aerosol Backscattering | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Nadir (directly downwards)
| 5 Hz
| 815-815 nm | ||||
Modular Aerial Sensing System | MASS | Luc Lenain (PI) | Scripps | Twin Otter International, Partenavia P68C (Aspen Helicopter), Gulfstream V - JSC | Lidar | Ocean surface and land topography, thermal imagery, hyperspectral imagery, visible imagery, point temperature | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards), Cross-track scanning
| 400000 Hz
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Multi-function Airborne Raman Lidar | MARLi | Zhien Wang (PI) | CU Boulder | NSF/NCAR C-130, University of Wyoming King Air, P-3 Orion - WFF | Lidar | H2O, Temperature, Aerosol, and cloud profiles | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Nadir (directly downwards)
| 10 Hz
| 0.6 m
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Multi-functional Fiber Laser Lidar | MFLL | Jeremy Dobler (PI) | Exelis | B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC | Lidar | Altitude | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Multicenter Airborne Coherent Atmospheric Wind Sensor | MACAWS | Jeffry Rothermel (PI) | NASA MSFC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar | Wind, Aerosol Backscattering | Vertical profile
| Limb scanning
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Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar | SIMPL | David Harding (PI) | NASA GSFC | Learjet 25, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Lidar | Sea Ice Surface Elevation, Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Thickness from Offbeam Returns | THOR | Bob Cahalan (PI) | NASA GSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Lidar | Cloud Thickness | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Tropospheric Wind Lidar Technology Experiment | TWiLiTE | Bruce Gentry (PI) | NASA GSFC | DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, Global Hawk - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Lidar | Wind | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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