Lidar data for 2024 Feb Texas Panhandle Wildfire Case
Description
We deployed a ground-based scanning Doppler lidar (Halo Photonics Stream LineXR Scanning Doppler LiDAR system, TTU-DL) at Reese Laboratory. The lidar delivers three-dimensional wind and aerosol backscatter structures in pre-defined scanning regions (plane, vertical or volume scans) and via post-processing, aerosol variability, boundary layer dynamics and entrainment processes could be studied. The TTU-DL is a modular, autonomous, turn-key, pulsed Doppler lidar which make remote sensing of motion and backscatter in the atmosphere. In this mode of operation, naturally occurring aerosols and clouds act as a distributed target and backscatter the transmitted pulses. The receiver detects the Doppler shift brought about by the motion of the distributed targets and therefore the line-of-sight component of their velocity. The novel optical technology employed, and the design approach have led to a new class of eye-safe (Class 1M), high performance lidar exhibiting exceptional stability which is compatible with a continuous and unattended mode of operation. In the archived files, we provided Doppler lidar data in netcdf format an a text file as a meta data to help guide the process of analyses.
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Steps to reproduce
These data are already processed radial velocity, backscatter of aerosols. So, no further analyses were made. However, one should use the data at 1 s resolution since we are not sure about other resolutions.