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Raman lidar for the study of liquid water and water vapor in the troposphere

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A Raman lidar system based on a tripled Nd:YAG laser is used for profiling of water vapor and liquid water in the troposphere. The Raman signals from water in the gas and liquid state are separated by interference filters and their relative intensities are studied for different atmospheric conditions. For clean weather or immediately after the rain the Raman signal from liquid water inside PBL is about one order of magnitude lower than the signal from water vapor. But during cloud measurements both Raman signals become comparable and the results of water vapor measurements must be corrected for the interference of liquid water Raman scattering. The obtained results are used for the estimation of liquid water content in the atmosphere.

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  1. Physics Instrumentation Center of General Physics Institute, Troitsk, Moscow reg., 142190, Russia (E-mail: katyv@orc.ru), RU

    I.A. Veselovskii

  2. Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, P.O. Box 105, Yusong, Taejon, 305-600, Korea, KR

    H.K. Cha, D.H. Kim, S.C. Choi & J.M. Lee

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  1. I.A. Veselovskii
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Received: 4 October 1999 / Revised version: 18 February 2000 / Published online: 11 May 2000

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Veselovskii, I., Cha, H., Kim, D. et al. Raman lidar for the study of liquid water and water vapor in the troposphere . Appl Phys B 71, 113–117 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400000290

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