CO2 Sounder Lidar Development at NASA-GSFC for the ASCENDS Mission

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2016.sth1h.3
• Publication Date: 2016-05-31T17:09:44Z
• Authors: Graham R. Allan; James B. Abshire; Mark A. Stephen; Anand Ramanathan; Haris Riris; William Hasselbrack; Jeffrey Chen; Anthony Yu; Xiaoli Sun; Kenji Numata; Stewart Wu
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

We have advanced the science of space-based laser measurements using the spectral purity and frequency tuning of a fiber-amplified lasers performing active remote sensing of atmospheric CO 2 column abundance and dry mixing ratio.