Balloonborne lidar for cloud physics studies
2006
An innovative balloonborne microjoule lidar (MULID) has been developed within the
framework of the HIBISCUS project to provide nighttime measurements of visible and
subvisible cirrus and aerosols. MULID has been designed to be a low-cost and an ultralow
consumption instrument, due to the remote possibilities of payload recovery and the
necessity of a low-weight battery power supply. Ground tests have been performed at the
Observatory of Haute Provence (France), and the first technical flight has been made from
Trapani, Italy, on a stratospheric balloon; finally, the instrument has been scientifically
deployed during the pre-HIBISCUS and HIBISCUS tropical campaigns in Bauru, Brazil, in
February 2003 and February 2004, respectively. A description of the instrument is provided
together with the results of the ground-based and flight tests as well as an overview and
discussion of the first results.
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