Lidars for weather observations

The Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) is a joint research unit of the CNRS, the CEA and the University of Versailles St-Quentin. The laboratory activities is divided into three main broad research topics including Climate, Biogeochemical Cycles, and Geochronology-Geochemistry. The EZ Lidar ALS 300D with scan capabilities is mainly used by the scientific team coordinated by Dr. Patrick Chazette that is an expert on microphyisical and optical aerosol properties studies. Read More »

ULCO

ULCO (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opal) University financed a project to study the distribution and dispersion of industrial plumes in Dunkerque area. This application requires a quasi real time temporal resolution and a spatial resolution of 1.5m. Fast horizontal scans are performed with an ALS 300D EZ Lidar. Read More »

University of Virginia

One of the research fields of the Department of Environmental Science (S. De Wekker) of the University of Virginia is the investigation of atmospheric boundary layer processes that are strongly influenced in hilly and mountainous terrain using a combination of field studies, data analysis, and numerical modeling technique in order to estimate regional CO2 fluxes. An EZ Lidar ALS300 performs field campaigns on different rough terrains to study the boundary layer in relation with a complex terrain.

Washington State University

The Laboratory for Atmospheric Research (LAR) of Washington State University has a long history of participation in national and international field programs related to air quality research. This emphasis upon field research continues today, but it is now balanced by a growing capability in advanced numerical air quality modeling and laboratory work. LAR is equipped with an EZ Lidar ALS 300 and its measurements mainly in the boundary layer are used in the air pollution forecast models. Read More »

SIRTA

IRTA stands for Site Instrumental de Recherche par Télédétection Atmosphérique. It is a French national atmospheric observatory dedicated to cloud and aerosol research. SIRTA is located in Palaiseau (49N, 2E), 20 km south of Paris (France) in a semi-urban environment. The observatory gathers and operates a suite of state-of-the-art active and passive remote sensing instruments from a large community to document and monitor an ensemble of radiative and dynamic processes in the atmosphere. The detailed description of the state of the atmospheric column is archived and made accessible to the scientific community. EZ Lidar ALS450 collected measurements continuously are stored in a climatological database Read More »

NASA/GSFC

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major U.S. laboratory for developing and operating unmanned scientific spacecraft. The Center manages many of NASA's Earth Observation, Astronomy, and Space Physics missions. GSFC includes several other properties, most significantly the Wallops Flight Facility near Chincoteague, Virginia. EZ Lidar ALS450 is deployed together with NASA Micro Pulse Lidar and it is mainly used for field campaigns by the MPLNET team Read More »

University of Reading

The Department of Meteorology is internationally renowned for its excellent teaching and research in atmospheric, oceanic and climate science. In the most recent UK university research assessment exercise (Dec 2008) the weather, climate and environmental science research gained a top rating. EZ Lidar is used in the frame of CloudNET project. Read More »

Institute of Atmospheric Physics -China-

Prof. Wang Pucai of Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Beijing main interests are in atmospheric radiative transfer and atmospheric remote sensing. He is also involved in studies on microphysical and optical properties of aerosol over the high urbanized Beijing area. An EZ Lidar ALS450D is used to monitor aerosols. Read More »

Knmi

KNMI is the national Dutch institute for weather, climate research and seismology. It disseminates weather information to the public at large, the government, aviation and the shipping industry in the interest of safety, the economy and a sustainable environment. To gain insight into long-term developments, KNMI conducts research on climate change. Making the knowledge, data and information on hand at KNMI accessible is one core activity. KNMI is an agency of the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat). KNMI’s duties are set forth in KNMI Act (Wet op het KNMI).EZ Lidar ALS450D is deployed in the frame of CloudNet project. Read More »

University of Reading

The Department of Meteorology is internationally renowned for its excellent teaching and research in atmospheric, oceanic and climate science. In the most recent UK university research assessment exercise (Dec 2008) the weather, climate and environmental science research gained a top rating. EZ Lidar ALS450D is used in the frame of CloudNET project that is an EU-funded project to use data obtained quasi-continuously at three remote sensing stations for the development and implementation of cloud remote sensing synergy algorithms. Each site is equipped with radar, Lidar and a suite of passive instrumentation. The observations will be used in the evaluation of four operational numerical models, and to demonstrate the role that could be played by an operational network of cloud remote sensing stations.