Abstract

The Antarctic Miniature Lidar (AML) instrument has been assembled, tested, and deployed to the NOAA Clean Air Facility at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. AML uses redundant commercially available, single element semiconductor lasers, operated CW, and a silicon avalanche photodiode (APD) operated in the Geiger or photon counting mode. We present preliminary lidar measurements made at both Goddard Space Flight Center, prior to deployment, and at the Clean Air Facility after installation at the South Pole Station in early February, 1995.

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