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Case Study Analyses of the Success DC-8 Scanning Lidar DatabaseUnder project SUCCESS (Subsonic Aircraft Contrail and Cloud Effects Special Study) funded by the Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Program, SRI International (SRI) developed an angular scanning back'scatter lidar for operation on the NASA DC-8 research aircraft and deployed the scanning lidar during the SUCCESS field campaign. The primary purpose of the lidar was to generate real-time video displays of clouds and contrails above, ahead of, and below the DC-8 as a means to help position the aircraft for optimum cloud and contrail sampling by onboard in situ sensors, and to help extend the geometrical domain of the in situ sampling records. A large, relatively complex lidar database was collected and several data examples were processed to illustrate the value of the lidar data for interpreting the other data records collected during SUCCESS. These data examples were used to develop a journal publication for the special SUCCESS Geophysical Research Letters issue (reprint presented as Appendix A). The data examples justified data analyses of a larger part of the DC-8 lidar database and is the objective of the current study.
Document ID
20000021398
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Uthe, Edward E.
(SRI International Corp. Menlo Park, CA United States)
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2000
Subject Category
Documentation And Information Science
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG2-1235
PROJECT: SRI Proj. ESU-3268
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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