Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL)

at California State University, Chico
Publications focused on the instrument:

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley, E. Loew, 2007: Polarization lidar at 1.54-microns and observations of plumes from aerosol generators. Opt. Eng., 46, 096201. LINK

Spuler, S. M. and S. D. Mayor, 2007: Raman shifter optimized for lidar at 1.5-micron wavelength. Appl. Optics, 46, 2990-2995. LINK

Spuler, S. M. and S. D. Mayor, 2005: Scanning Eye-safe Elastic Backscatter Lidar at 1.54 microns, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 22, 696-703. PDF

Mayor, S. D., and S. M. Spuler, 2004: Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar, Appl. Optics, 43, 3915-3924. LINK

Publications related to application of the instrument:

De Wekker, S. F. J. and S. D. Mayor, 2009: Observations of atmospheric structure and dynamics in the Owens Valley of California with a ground-based, eye-safe, scanning aerosol lidar. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 48, 1483-1499. PDF

Doyle, J. D., V. Grubišić, W. O. J. Brown, S. F. J. De Wekker, A. Dörnbrack, Q. Jiang, S. D. Mayor, M. Weissmann, 2009: Observations and numerical simulations of subrotor vortices during T-REX. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 1229-1249. PDF

Refaat, T. F., S. Ismail, M. N. Abedin, S. M. Spuler, S. D. Mayor, and U. N. Singh, 2008: Lidar backscatter signal recovery from phototransistor systematic effect by deconvolution. Appl. Optics, 47, 5281-5295. LINK

Mayor, S. D., P. Benda, C. Murata and R. J. Danzig, 2008: Lidars: A key component of urban biodefense. Biosecur. Bioterror., 6, 45-56. LINK

Refaat, T. F., S. Ismail, T. L. Mack, M. N. Abedin, S. D. Mayor, S. M. Spuler, U. Singh, 2007: Infrared Phototransistor Validation for Atmospheric Remote Sensing Application using the Raman-Shifted Eye-Safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL). Opt. Eng., 46, 086001. LINK

Warner, T., P. Benda, S. Swerdlin, J. Knievel, E. Argenta, B. Aronian, B. Balsley, J. Bowers, R. Carter, P. A. Clark, K. Clawson, J. Copeland, A. Crook, R. Frehlich, M. L. Jensen, Y. Liu, S. Mayor, Y. Meillier, B. Morley, R. Sharman, S. Spuler, D. Storwold, J. Sun, J. Weil, M. Xu, A. Yates, and Y. Zhang, 2007: The Pentagon Shield Field Program Toward Critical Infrastructure Protection. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 88, 167-176. PDF

Select Conference Papers about the REAL and its application:

Mayor, S. D., 2008: Observations of sea-breeze fronts and turbulence near the surface during stable conditions. Oral presentation & paper S03O-01. 24th International Laser Radar Conference, 23-27 June 2008, Boulder, Colorado. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., 2008: Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL) observations at the Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (CHATS). Oral presentation & paper 18A.6 in the American Meteorological Society’s 18th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence. 9-13 June 2008, Stockholm, Sweden. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, and B. M. Morley, 2008: Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar. Poster presentation P1.1 in the Symposium on Recent Developments in Atmospheric Applications of Radar and Lidar. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, 21-24 Jan. 2008, New Orleans. POSTER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley, T.W. Horst, E. G. Patton, and D. H. Lenschow, 2007: First comparison of products from the NCAR REAL and ISFF during the CHATS. Oral presentation A41E-06 at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 13 Dec. 2007, San Francisco.

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley, S. C. Himmelsbach, R. A. Rilling, T. M. Weckwerth, E. G. Patton, and D. H. Lenschow, 2007: Elastic backscatter lidar observations of sea-breeze fronts in Dixon, California. Paper 8.5 in the Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, American Meteorological Society, 10-13 Sept. 2007, San Diego. PAPER TALK

Mayor, S. D., B. M. Morley, S. M. Spuler, S. C. Himmelsbach, D. Flanigan, T. M. Weckwerth, and T. Warner, 2007: Elastic Backscatter lidar observations of a gust front passage over Washington D.C. on 7 May 2004. Paper 9.7 in the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society, 10-13 Sept. 2007, San Diego. PAPER

Spuler, S. M. and S. D. Mayor, 2007: Eye-safe aerosol lidar at 1.5 microns: progress toward a scanning lidar network, SPIE Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring VIII, San Diego, CA, DOI: 10.1117/12.739519 PAPER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley, E. Loew, T. M. Weckwerth, S. DeWekker, D. J. Kirshbaum, 2006: REAL: 1.5 micron wavelength scanning polarization lidar, 23rd International Laser Radar Conference, Nara, Japan, 24-28 July. Vol. 1, Pages 161-164. (Best Poster Award) PAPER POSTER

Spuler, S. M. and S. D. Mayor, 2006: High-energy multipass forward Raman shifter as an eye-safe laser source for lidar, 23rd International Laser Radar Conference, Nara, Japan, 24-28 July., Vol 1, Pages 133-136. PAPER POSTER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, and B. M. Morley, 2006: Three Generations of Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidars, Poster 8.22-P. 7th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling, 11-17 June, Boulder, CO. PAPER POSTER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, and B. M. Morley, 2005: Scanning eye-safe depolarization lidar at 1.54 microns and potential usefulness in bioaerosol plume detection. SPIE Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring IV, Paper 5887-23, San Diego, CA. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, and B. M. Morley, 2004: NCAR’s New Raman-shifted Eyesafe Aerosol Lidar (REAL). Paper S20-10 in ESA SP-561, Reviewed and Revised Papers Presented at the 22nd International Laser Radar Conference, Vol. 1, 12-16 July 2004, Matera, Italy. 53-56. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, J. R. Fox, T. D. Rucker, and B. M. Morley, 2004: NCARs New Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar, 16th Symp. on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 9-13 August, Portland, ME, paper number 6.2. PAPER

Dr. Mayor's publication list can be found here.
For reprints or more information, please contact Dr. Shane D. Mayor.