Airborne water vapor differential absorption lidar

Xin Wang; Hans Joachim Eichler; Adalbert Ding

doi:10.1201/b11279

Airborne water vapor differential absorption lidar

Xin Wang, Hans Joachim Eichler, Adalbert Ding

School of Optics and Photonics

Technical University of Berlin

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Abstract

Water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas, much more effective than CO₂. It governs the atmospheric water cycle and is a key component in atmospheric chemistry. The frequent occurrence of phase transitions from vapor to liquid water or ice crystals further enhances the importance of atmospheric humidity. Cloud formation and the various forms of precipitation certainly belong to the most important weather phenomena. The strong temperature dependence of the saturation vapor pressure in combination with vertical transport processes causes a large variability of the atmospheric humidity, which exists on practically all scales from turbulence to global distribution.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing
Subtitle of host publication	Perspectives and Applications
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	335-368
Number of pages	34
ISBN (Electronic)	9781439877630
ISBN (Print)	9781439877456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1201/b11279
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012

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