Construction and first atmospheric observations of a High Spectral Resolution Lidar System in Argentina in the frame of a trinational Japanese-Argentinean-Chilean Collaboration

PAPANDREA S, JIN Y, RISTORI P, OTERO L, NISHIZAWA T, MIZUNO A, SUGIMOTO N, ; QUEL E

New Delhi

Conferencia; Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring XV; 2016

We have designed and built a robust design of an Iodine-cell-based high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL) to perform remote observations of the aerosol transmission at 532 nm in close collaboration with the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES). The HSRL channel is based on NIES operational lidar design. We have adapted the emission unit to keep the laser and the wavelength feedback unit rigidly attached to avoid misalignments while keeping the laser wavelength tuned to the 1111 Iodine absorption line. The detection unit used for the Argentinean Aerosol monitoring network served as the original framework to install the atomic filter for the detection unit. The final unit will serve as the first evaluation model for this technology in the country. This work presents the current system configuration layout and the first atmospheric observations with a HSRL in Latin America.