Annotated Measurement Examples
Below are some example measurements to help you interpret the images in our
lidar data archive. For more information, contact:
Prof. Thomas J. Duck
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science,
Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3J5
Tel: (902)494-1456
Fax: (902)494-5191
E-mail: tom.duck@dal.ca
Archived data is available here.
Aerosol extinction is roughly proportional to the total aerosol mass.
The "normalization region" is required as a reference for the
extinction calculation. Black regions in the images represent a loss of
instrument sensivity, usually due to extinction of the laser beam by
optically-thick clouds. Anything that looks like a vertical stripe is a
measurement retrieval artifact, and should be ignored.
