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Remote Detection of Atmospheric Pollutants Using Differential Absorption Lidar Techniques

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Applied Laser Spectroscopy

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Air pollution is an extremely dynamic phenomenon, and this makes its understanding and, therefore, its control, more elusive. This dynamic behavior appears not only in physical terms by the diffusion and transport of emitted pollutants, but also chemically, through the many reactions occuring in the atmosphere. It is therefore of outstanding importance to be able to correlate emission and immission, and thus characterize the impact of different kinds of sources of pollution (industries, vehicles, domestic heaters) on the environment. The only way to control phenomena like acid rains or hole formation in the ozone layer, is to perform a permanent and large-scale monitoring of the air pollution. Presently existing devices, however, although they may be very sensitive like Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) or Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS), can only provide spot measurements at ground level. Three-dimensional informations, reflecting the dynamic character of pollution, are, until now, sorely lacking.

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Wolf, J.P., Kölsch, H.J., Rairoux, P., Wöste, L. (1990). Remote Detection of Atmospheric Pollutants Using Differential Absorption Lidar Techniques. In: Demtröder, W., Inguscio, M. (eds) Applied Laser Spectroscopy. NATO ASI Series, vol 241. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1342-7_34

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