Test results of a pulsed coherent Doppler lidar created at the Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS

Abstract

This paper describes a pulsed coherent Doppler lidar, recently created at the Wave Propagation Laboratory of the Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS (WPL lidar). The WPL lidar was tested in atmospheric experiments. Comparison of the results of joint measurements of the radial velocity by the WPL lidar and Stream Line lidar showed their satisfactory agreement. From measurement of radial velocities by the WPL lidar at various azimuth angles (that is, with the use of the conical scanning), the height profiles of wind velocity and wind direction angle in the atmospheric boundary layer have been retrieved.