LiDAR for Atmosphere Research over Africa (LARA)

Venkataraman Sivakumar (1) , D. Moema (2, 1) , C. Bollig (1) , A. Sharma (1) , Nkanyiso Mbatha (3, 4) , Sandile B. Malinga (3) , G. Mengistu (5) , Hassan Bencherif (4) , Philippe Keckhut (6)

1 CSIR - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research [Pretoria]
2 TUT - Tshwane University of Technology [Pretoria]
3 Hermanus Magnetic Observatory
4 LACy - Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones
5 AAU - Addis Ababa University
6 SA - Service d'aéronomie

This paper describes the LIDAR for atmosphere research over Africa and current initiatives being undertaken in South Africa. A mobile LIDAR system is being developed at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) National Laser Centre (NLC), Pretoria (25°5 ′ S;28°2 ′ E), South Africa, for remote sensing the atmosphere. The initial results conclude that the system is capable of providing aerosol/cloud backscatter measurements for the height region from ground to 40 km with a 10 m vertical height resolution.

Domaines: Physique Atmosphérique et Océanique [physics.ao-ph]

Venkataraman Sivakumar, D. Moema, C. Bollig, A. Sharma, Nkanyiso Mbatha, et al.. LiDAR for Atmosphere Research over Africa (LARA). 2nd CSIR Bi-annual conference, Nov 2008, Pretoria, South Africa. pp.En ligne. ⟨hal-00966647⟩