| タイトル | The Airborne Cloud-Aerosol Transport System |
| 本文（外部サイト） | http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20140010052 |
| 著者（英） | Scott, V. Stanley; Mcgill, Matthew J.; Selmer, Patrick; Hlavka, Dennis; Wake, Shane; Yorks, John E.; Hart, William; Kupchock, Andrew |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 発行日 | 2014-03-24 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | The Airborne Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (ACATS) is a multi-channel Doppler lidar system recently developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). A unique aspect of the multi-channel Doppler lidar concept such as ACATS is that it is also, by its very nature, a high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL). Both the particulate and molecular scattered signal can be directly and unambiguously measured, allowing for direct retrievals of particulate extinction. ACATS is therefore capable of simultaneously resolving the backscatterextinction properties and motion of a particle from a high altitude aircraft. ACATS has flown on the NASA ER-2 during test flights over California in June 2012 and science flights during the Wallops Airborne Vegetation Experiment (WAVE) in September 2012. This paper provides an overview of the ACATS method and instrument design, describes the ACATS retrieval algorithms for cloud and aerosol properties, and demonstrates the data products that will be derived from the ACATS data using initial results from the WAVE project. The HSRL retrieval algorithms developed for ACATS have direct application to future spaceborne missions such as the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS). Furthermore, the direct extinction and particle wind velocity retrieved from the ACATS data can be used for science applications such 27 as dust or smoke transport and convective outflow in anvil cirrus clouds. |
| NASA分類 | Meteorology and Climatology |
| レポートNO | GSFC-E-DAA-TN14068 |
| 権利 | Copyright, Distribution as joint owner in the copyright |
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