Grupo de Óptica Atmósferica de Camagüey

Aramís Fonte¹, Juan Carlos Antuña¹

¹Camagüey Lidar Station, Camagüey Meteorological Center, INSMET, Cuba

Upendra N. Singh¹, Grady J. Koch¹, Michael J. Kavaya¹, Syed Ismail¹

¹NASA Langley Research Center

Barclay Robert Clemesha

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

Ricardo Forno¹, Flavio Ghezzi¹, Tatiana Di Iorio¹, Francesco Zaratti¹, Errico Armadillo²

¹Laboratorio de Física de la Atmósfera - UMSA, La Paz, Bolivia
²ESA, The Neederlands

Boris Barja¹, Juan Carlos Antuña¹

¹Camagüey Lidar Station, Meteorological Center of Camagüey. INSMET. Cuba

Eduardo Landulfo

Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares-IPEN/CNEN/CLA

Dale M. Simonich¹, Barclay R. Clemesha¹

¹Aeronomy Department, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais – INPE

Two things that can be done with the atmospheric density derived from the backscattered light from a LIDAR are:

1. To determine the atmospheric temperature profile by assuming hydrostatic equilibrium and the perfect gas law for the atmosphere.
2. Assuming a standard atmosphere one can derive the scattering ratio profile (ratio of actual scattering from the atmosphere to that which would result from the assumed atmosphere) resulting from Mie scattering by aerosols suspended in the upper atmosphere.

Mario Blas Lavorato¹, Boris Barja², Juan Carlos Antuña²

¹División Radar Láser - CEILAP (CITEFA-CONICET) - Argentina
²Camagüey Lidar Station, Meteorological Center of Camagüey. INSMET. Cuba