Abstract

The NOAA-WPL pulsed CO₂ Doppler lidar system is being utilized in several atmospheric research and engineering applications such as boundary layer winds, severe storm development, wind shear monitoring, and measurement of winds aloft and along the glide slope for the Space Shuttle (STS-2) landing. An effort is in progress within the Wave Propagation Laboratory to compare the lidar wind measurements with other wind measuring sensors such as rawinsondes, microwave radar, instrumented towers, and instrumented aircraft, over as wide a range of meteorological conditions as possible.