Aerosol Lidar (Nd:Yag) at Lauder, New Zealand

Site (station location)
Lauder, New Zealand
Instrument Type
Lidar
Parameter
Model
Nd:Yag
Instrument Status
Inactive
Periods of Activity
1992
–2008
Cooperating Institutions
NIWA
M&A Directory Entry

B. Liley (NIWA) — Aerosol measurements at 532 nm from November 1992 onwards. The system was upgraded in 2009 to measure the depolarization ratio at 532 nm and backscatter at 1064 nm simultaneously. It operated weekly before February 2023 and then in an alternating 10-minute period 24 hours a day all year after that. Data was archived under PIs, Liley, Uchino, and Nagai from November 1992 to July 2008. 

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