Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 8, 726(2010)

Mobile Rayleigh Doppler wind lidar based on double-edge technique

Lei Tang1, Zhifeng Shu1, Jihui Dong11, Guocheng Wang1, Yongtao Wang2, Wenjing Xu1, Dongdong Hu1, Tingdi Chen3, Xiankang Dou3, Dongsong Sun3, and Hyunki Cha4
Author Affiliations
  • 1Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
  • 2Computer Department, Anhui Finance and Trade Vocational College, Hefei 230031, China
  • 3School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230031, China
  • 4Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, 305-353 Korea
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    We describe a mobile molecular Doppler wind lidar (DWL) based on double-edge technique for wind measurement of altitudes ranging from 10 to 40 km. A triple Fabry-Perot etalon is employed as a frequency discriminator to determine the Doppler shift proportional to the wind velocity. The lidar operates at 355 nm with a 45-cm-aperture telescope and a matching azimuth-over-elevation scanner that provides full hemispherical pointing. To guarantee wind accuracy, a single servo loop is used to monitor the outgoing laser frequency to remove inaccuracies due to the frequency drift of the laser or the etalon. The standard deviation of the outgoing laser frequency drift is 6.18 MHz and the corresponding velocity error is 1.11 m/s. The wind profiles measured by the DWL are in good agreement with the results of the wind profile radar (WPR). Evaluation is achieved by comparing at altitudes from 2 to 8 km. The relative error of horizontal wind speed is from 0.8 to 1.8 m/s in the compared ranges. The wind accuracy is less than 6 m/s at 40 km and 3 m/s at 10 km.

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    Lei Tang, Zhifeng Shu, Jihui Dong1, Guocheng Wang, Yongtao Wang, Wenjing Xu, Dongdong Hu, Tingdi Chen, Xiankang Dou, Dongsong Sun, Hyunki Cha. Mobile Rayleigh Doppler wind lidar based on double-edge technique[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(8): 726

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    Paper Information

    Received: Feb. 5, 2010

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 12, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100808.0726

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