Micropulse Lidar Cloud Mask (MPLCMASK) Value-Added Product for the Fast-Switching Polarized Micropulse Lidar Technical Report
- Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (United States)
Lidar backscattered signal is a useful tool for identifying vertical cloud structure in the atmosphere in optically thin clouds. Cloud boundaries derived from lidar signals are a necessary input for popular ARM data products, such as the Active Remote Sensing of Clouds (ARSCL) product. An operational cloud boundary algorithm (Wang and Sassen 2001) has been implemented for use with the ARM Micropulse Lidar (MPL) systems. In addition to retrieving cloud boundaries above 500 m, the value-added product (VAP) named Micropulse Lidar Cloud Mask (MPLCMASK) applies lidar-specific corrections (i.e., range-square, background, deadtime, and overlap) as described in Campbell et al. (2002) to the measured backscattered lidar. Depolarization ratio is computed using the methodology developed by Flynn et al. (2007) for polarization-capable MPL systems. The cloud boundaries output from MPLCMASK will be the primary lidar cloud mask for input to the ARSCL product and will be applied to all MPL systems, including historical data sets.
- Research Organization:
- DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE EM Office of Science and Technology (EM-50)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-7601830
- OSTI ID:
- 1019283
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SC-ARM/TR-098; PNNL-20561; TRN: US201120%%351
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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