LAB LIDAR

CONCERNING (Compact Raman Lidar for Atmospheric CO2 and Thermodynamic Profiling)  

The research project CONCERNING (Compact Raman Lidar for Atmospheric CO2 and Thermodynamic Profiling) was funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research as part of the “Special Integrative Research Fund (FISR) 2019” Call. The project is aimed at the design and experimental development of an innovative Raman lidar system for measuring the vertical profiles of the two main greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere, i.e. CO2 and water vapor, as well as temperature and multi-wavelength particle backscatter, extinction, and depolarization profiles.

Measurement campaigns

• WaLiNeAs (Water vapor Lidar Network Assimilation) ​La Garde (Toulon) , France, October 2022 - January 2023
  
  An international project coordinated by CNRS and Météo-France. WaLiNeAs is aimed at studying extreme precipitation events and improving their predictability through the assimilation into mesoscale numerical models of water vapor profile measurements from a network of Raman lidar systems.
  
  Flamant, C., Chazette, P., Caumont, O., Di Girolamo, P., Behrendt, A., Sicard, M., Totems, J., Lange, D., Fourrié, N., Brousseau, P., Augros, C., Baron, A., Cacciani, M., Comerón, A., De Rosa, B., Ducrocq, V., Genau, P., Labatut, L., Muñoz-Porcar, C., Rodríguez-Gómez, A., Summa, D., Thundathil, R., and Wulfmeyer, V.: A network of water vapor Raman lidars for improving heavy precipitation forecasting in southern France: introducing the WaLiNeAs initiative, Bull. of Atmos. Sci.& Technol., 2, 10, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42865-021-00037-6 , 2021.  
  
  
• ABL-ITINERIS Potenza, Italy, May 2024 - June 2024
  
  Currently ongoing campaign organized by CNR-IMAA for the study of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer.
  
  

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