Fahua SHEN, Hyunki CHA¹, Dongsong SUN, Dukhyeon KIM², and Sung Ok KWON¹

Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, P.R. China
¹Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon 305-353, Korea
²Hanbat National University, Daejeon 305-719, Korea

(Received January 16, 2008; Accepted April 23, 2008)

A double edge Mie Doppler lidar at 1064 nm was developed in Hefei, China in 2005 for low tropospheric wind measurement. Intercomparison experiments with a wind profiler and a wiresonde were held. Intercomparisons of concurrent lidar and other instrument observations show good agreement with expected measurement accuracy. The examples of validated lidar wind profiles obtained during these experiments as well as an example of continuous wind observations are presented. The instrument has demonstrated the capability of atmospheric wind field measurement from 0.2 to 5 km altitude, achieving below 2 m/s accuracy with 1 min averaging and 21.2 m vertical resolution.

Key words: Doppler lidar, tropospheric wind, Fabry–Perot etalon, Mie scattering