An Overview of Lidar Study in China

Abstract

The progress of lidar studies made in China is reviewed in the paper. The El Chichon volcaniccloud was measured with the ruby lidar in 1983. The large amounts of profile data of Pinatubovolcanic cloud have been obtained at Hefei and Beijing. The first Chinese ozone-DIALsystem has been constructed by Hu's group at AIOFM in 1993. Another ozone-DIAL lidarsystem is being constructed by Qiu's group at IAP. Chinese scientists have done many researchworks in the lidar measurements of the troposphere, such as plume dispersion, aerosol extinctioncoefficient profile, cloud base height, horizontal and slant visibility. Two lidar systems arebeing constructed for the middle atmosphere in China. The lidar, applied in measurements ofsea water temperature, and oil slicks at sea surface, has been developing in China also. Inaddition, Chinese scientists also did many theoretical studies in the methodologies of lidarmeasurements, multiple scattering in lidar measurement.