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During the previous 10 months the Infrared Doppler Lidar program area of NOAA’s Wave Propagation Laboratory has used a pulsed coherent CO2 lidar system as a remote sensing tool to study various atmospheric phenomena. The operational feasibility of the system was initially demonstrated by United Technologies Research Center under contract from NOAA. At the conclusion of the contract, WPL purchased the TEA laser, telescope, and locking loop hardware used in the UTRC effort and incorporated it into the current semi-trailer-mounted lidar system.
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Hardesty, R.M. (1983). Atmospheric Remote Sensing Using the NOAA Coherent Lidar System. In: Killinger, D.K., Mooradian, A. (eds) Optical and Laser Remote Sensing. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39552-2_44
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