High Spectral Resolution Lidar 2 (HSRL2)

Status

Operated By: 
PI

The NASA Langley airborne High-Spectral-Resolution Lidar – Generation 2 (HSRL-2) is used to characterize clouds and small particles in the atmosphere, called aerosols. From an airborne platform, the HSRL-2 instrument provides nadir-viewing profiles of aerosol and cloud optical and microphysical properties, which are used studies aerosol impacts on radiation, clouds, and air quality.  HSRL-2 also provides measurements of the near-surface ocean, including depth-resolved subsurface backscatter and attenuation and Chlorophyll and CDOM fluorescence.
 

Instrument Type: 
Lidar
Measurements: 
Aerosol Depolarization Ratio, Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Extinction
Aircraft: 
ER-2 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, B200 - LARC, B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC, G-V-JSC
Point(s) of Contact: 
Chris Hostetler (POC; PI), Richard Ferrare (PI), Sharon Burton (Co-I), Johnathan W. Hair (Co-I), Anthony Cook (Mgr), David Harper (Mgr), Taylor Shingler (Co-I)