Mario Lavorato1, Pablo Cesarano1, Eduardo Quel1, Laurent Sauvage2 and Pierre H. Flamant2
1División Radar Láser, CEILAP (CITEFA - CONICET), Argentina
2Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Since august 2000 a lidar station located in Buenos Aires suburb is operated routinely with a new detection system. The backscatter lidar is working at 532 nm with two telescopes one of them is a Cassegrain model with an 8,2 cm of diameter primary mirror. The other one is a Newtonian model with a parabolic mirror of 50 cm of diameter. This system can measure simultaneously the low stratosphere and all tropospheric layer, therefore we can make in real time the next measurements: atmospheric boundary layer time series evolution, tropospheric and stratospheric aerosols optical parameters (radiative properties) and cirrus clouds backscatter coefficient and optical depth. We can see many examples for calculate the instrumental constant and compare these results in different climatological conditions. Finally, the scientific objectives are related to environmental and atmospheric radiative budget studies.
