Abstract

Over the past several years a cloud lidar system (CLS) has been deployed on high altitude aircraft cloud observation missions. The instrumentation configuration and some initial data acquired in Fall 1979 have been previously reported.^1,2 In May-June 1981 a further set flights were undertaken in conjunction with the large scale CCOPE experiment. A modified configuration, shown in Fig. 1, was employed for these later flights. The major additions to the instrument were a 1064 nm detector to supplement the dual polarization 532 nm detectors and also an increase to a 20 MHz data acquisition bandwidth.