In September, 2009 the TWiLiTE (Tropospheric Wind Lidar Technology Experiment) direct detection Doppler lidar was integrated for engineering flight testing on the NASA ER-2 high altitude aircraft. The TWiI,iTE Doppler lidar measures vertical profiles of wind by transmitting a short ultraviolet (355 nm) laser pulse into the atmosphere, collecting the laser light scattered back to the lidar by air molecules and measuring the Doppler shifted frequency of that light. The magnitude of the Doppler shift is proportional to the wind speed of the air in the parcel scattering the laser light. TWiLiTE was developed with funding from the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) Instrument Incubator Program (11P). The primary objectives of the TWiLiTE program are twofold: 1) to advance the development of key technologies and subsystems critical for a future space based Global 3-1) Wind Mission, as recommended by the National Research Council in the recent Decadal Survey for Earth Science [1] and 2) to develop, for the first time, a fully autonomous airborne Doppler lidar and to demonstrate tropospheric wind profile measurements from a high altitude downward looking, moving platform to simulate spaceborne measurements. In this paper we will briefly describe the instrument followed by a discussion of the results from the 2009 engineering test flights


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    Title :

    Flight Testing of the TWiLiTE Airborne Molecular Doppler Lidar


    Contributors:
    Gentry, Bruce (author) / McGill, Matthew (author) / Machan, Roman (author) / Reed, Daniel (author) / Cargo, Ryan (author) / Wilkens, David J. (author) / Hart, William (author) / Yorks, John (author) / Scott, Stan (author) / Wake, Shane (author)

    Conference:

    International Laser Radiation Conference ; 2010 ; Saint Petersburg, Russia


    Publication date :

    2010-07-02


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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