Continuously operated portable automated lidar (PAL): Boundary layer observations in Chiba, Japan using automatic alignment system

Authors

  • Nofel Lagrosas Department of Physics, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
  • Yotsumi Yoshii Graduate School of Engineering, Fukui University, Japan
  • Nobuo Takeuchi Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Japan
  • Hiroaki Kuze Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Japan
  • Suekazu Naito Chiba Prefectural Environmental Research Center, Japan
  • Akihiro Sone Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan
  • Hirofumi Kan Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan

Abstract

A continuously operated portable automated lidar (PAL) is used to monitor the troposphere. The PAL system uses an automatic alignment procedure to routinely optimize the lidar alignment in a definite interval. Consequently, we demonstrate the capability of the system to detect atmospheric phenomena based from the data gathered from January 2003 to January 2004. The automatic alignment procedure implemented on the system will be discussed.

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Article ID

SPP-2005-1G-03

Section

Atmospheric Studies

Published

2005-10-26

How to Cite

[1]
N Lagrosas, Y Yoshii, N Takeuchi, H Kuze, S Naito, A Sone, and H Kan, Continuously operated portable automated lidar (PAL): Boundary layer observations in Chiba, Japan using automatic alignment system, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 23, SPP-2005-1G-03 (2005). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2005-1G-03.