Cloud base height determination in rain, snow, and fog with a low-cost eye-safe lidar

Christoph Muenkel

doi:10.1117/12.221057

20 September 1995 Cloud base height determination in rain, snow, and fog with a low-cost eye-safe lidar

Christoph Muenkel

Proceedings Volume 2506, Air Pollution and Visibility Measurements; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.221057
Event: European Symposium on Optics for Environmental and Public Safety, 1995, Munich, Germany

Abstract

The main obstacles for a reliable cloud base height determination with a lidar system are hydrometeors and precipitation scattering the emitted laser light on its way into the atmosphere. In order to fulfill the requirements of airport and aviation safety, modern commercial ceilometers have to be designed in a way that especially takes care of this problem, and the fact that a great part of the light received by the lidar originates from multiple scattering. Results of measuring campaigns performed in Canada and Germany show that the new Hagenuk cloud height lidar LD-WH X 06 also gives reliable results in difficult weather situations. Additionally it offers features like easy servicability, high MTBF, extended maintensance intervals, and long lifetime of laser being of special interest for commercial applications. This presentation contains some examples of the measuring compaigns mentioned above along with a comparison of the cloud heights measured with two different ceilometers in Canada.

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Christoph Muenkel "Cloud base height determination in rain, snow, and fog with a low-cost eye-safe lidar", Proc. SPIE 2506, Air Pollution and Visibility Measurements, (20 September 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.221057

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