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Wind Profiling with the Volume Imaging Lidar: A Comparison with Aircraft and Balloon Based Measurements

A.K. Piironen and E.W. Eloranta

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Abstract

The University of Wisconsin Volume Imaging Lidar1 (VIL) provides vertical profiles of the horizontal wind inside the convective boundary layer. In this paper we outline the VIL wind profiling method and compare results with aircraft-based and balloon-based observations. The methods provide different spatial averages: radiosonde measurements are nearly point measurements, aircraft measurements are flight path averaged, and VIL measurements are area averaged.

© 1993 Optical Society of America

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