https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023706006
Development of Direct-Detection Doppler Wind Lidar for Vertical Atmospheric Motion
1 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei Tokyo 184-8795, Japan
2 Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hino Tokyo 191-0065, Japan
3 National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
4 Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai Miyagi 982-8577, Japan
5 Kyushu University, Kasuga Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan
* Email: sishii@nict.go.jp
Published online: 7 July 2020
Wind is fundamental in many atmospheric phenomena. Global wind profile observation is important to improve numerical weather prediction (NWP) and various meteorological studies. Wind profile observations are measured mainly by radiosonde networks. A Doppler Wind Lidar (DWL) is a useful remote sensing technique for wind measurement. DWL would provide us with a wind profile having high vertical resolution, low bias, and good precision. The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) studies DWL has been developing various DWL. In the paper, we report development of a 355-nm direct-detection DWL and describe recent results of a 2-µm coherent DWL at NICT.
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