Proceedings of the 30th International Laser Radar Conference

ISBN-13: 9783031378171 / Angielski

John T. Sullivan; Thierry LeBlanc; Sara Tucker

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Chapter 1. Rotational Raman scattering through narrow-band interference filters: investigating uncertainties using a new Rayleigh scattering code developed within ACTRIS.- Chapter 2. Performance of Low-Cost, Diode-Based HSRL System with Simplified Optical Setup.- Chapter 3. Sensitivity Study on the Performance of the Single Calculus Chain Aerosol Layering Module.- Chapter 4. Particle Complex Refractive Index From 3+2  HSRL/Raman Lidar Measurements: Conditions of Accurate Retrieval, Uncertainties and Constraints Provided by Information About RH.- Chapter 5. Field Testing of a Diode-Laser-Based Micro Pulse Differential Absorption Lidar System to Measure Atmospheric Thermodynamic Variables.- Chapter 6. SEMICONDUCTOR LIDAR FOR QUANTITATIVE ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING.- Chapter 7. Atomic Barium Vapor Filter for Ultraviolet High Spectral Resolution Lidar.- Chapter 8. Future Lidars for Cutting-Edge Sciences in Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere-Stratosphere Physics and Space-Atmosphere Coupling.- Chapter 9. Polarization Lidar for Monitoring Dust Particle Orientation: First Measurements.- Chapter 10. Dust flow distribution measurement by low coherence Doppler lidar.- Chapter 11. A Multi-wavelength LED lidar for near ground atmospheric monitoring.- Chapter 12. Development of low-cost high-spectral-resolution lidar using compact multimode laser for air quality measurement.- Chapter 13. Deep Learning Based Convective Boundary Layer Determination for Aerosol and Wind Profiles observed by Wind Lidar.- Chapter 14. LITES: Laboratory Investigations of Atmospheric Aerosol Composition by Raman-Scattering and Fluorescence Spectra.- Chapter 15. Performance Simulation of a Raman Lidar for the Retrieval of CO2 Atmospheric Profiles.- Chapter 16. ALL FIBER FREE-RUNNING DUAL-COMB RANGING SYSTEM.- Chapter 17. gPCE Uncertainty Quantication Modeling of LiDAR for Bathymetric and Earth Science Applications.- Chapter 18. When can Poisson random variables be approximated as Gaussian?.- Chapter 19. Enhancing the Performance of the MicroPulse DIAL through Poisson Total Variation Signal Processing.- Chapter 20. Development of Micro Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) Level 3 Satellite Validation Products in Advance of the EarthCARE Mission.- Chapter 21. 3D Point Cloud Classification using Drone-based Scanning LIDAR and Signal Diversity.- Chapter 22. Design and Validation of an Elastic Lidar Simulator for Testing Potential New Systems for Aerosol Typing.- Chapter 23. Performance of Pulsed Wind Lidar Based on Optical Hybrid.- Chapter 24. Demonstrating Capabilities of Multiple-Beam Airborne Doppler Lidar Using a LES-based Simulator.- Chapter 25. All-Solid State Iron Resonance Lidar for Measurement of Temperature and Winds in the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere.- Chapter 26. Improved Remote Operation Capabilities for the NASA GSFC Tropospheric Ozone Lidar for Routine Ozone Profiling for Satellite Evaluation.- Chapter 27. A wind, temperature, H2O and CO2 scanning lidar mobile observatory for a 3D thermodynamic view of the atmosphere.- Chapter 28. Low-Cost and Lightweight Hyperspectral Lidar for Mapping Vegetation Fluorescence.- Chapter 29. SO2 Plumes Observation with LMOL: Theory, Modeling, and Validation.- Chapter 30. Possible Use of Iodine Absorption/Fluorescence Cell in High-Spectral-Resolution Lidar.- Chapter 31. Ten Years of Interdisciplinary Lidar Applications at SCNU, Guangzhou.- Chapter 32. Feasibility studies of the dual-polarization imaging lidar based on the division-of-focal-plane scheme for atmospheric remote sensing.- Chapter 33. An Algorithm to Retrieve Aerosol Optical Properties from ATLID and MSI Measurements.- Chapter 34. Observation of Polar Stratospheric Clouds at Dome C, Antarctica.- Chapter 35. Laboratory Evaluation of the Lidar Particle Depolarization Ratio (PDR) of Sulfates, Soot, and Mineral Dust at 180.0° Lidar Backscattering Angle.- Chapter 36. Fresh biomass burning aerosol observed in Potenza with multiwavelength Raman Lidar and sun-photometer.- Chapter 37. Aerosol Studies with Spectrometric Fluorescence and Raman Lidar.- Chapter 38. Continuous Observations of Aerosol-Weather Relationship from a Horizontal Lidar to Simulate Monitoring of Radioactive Dust in Fukashima, Japan.- Chapter 39. Statistical Simulation of Laser Pulse Propagation through Cirrus-cloudy Atmosphere.- Chapter 40. Aerosol Spatial Distribution Observed by a Mobile Vehicle Lidar with Optics for Near Range Detection.- Chapter 41. Cloud Base Height Correlation between a Co-located Micro-Pulse Lidar and a Lufft CHM15k Ceilometer.- Chapter 42. Comparison of Local and Transregional Atmospheric Particles Over the Urmia Lake in Northwest Iran, Using a Polarization Lidar Recordings.- Chapter 43. Properties of Polar Stratospheric Clouds over the European Arctic from Ground-Based Lidar.- Chapter 44. Two decades analysis of cirrus cloud radiative effects by lidar observations in the frame of NASA MPLNET lidar network.- Chapter 45. Temporal Variability of the Aerosol Properties Using a Cimel Sun/Lunar Photometer over Thessaloniki, Greece: Synergy With the Upgraded THELISYS Lidar System.- Chapter 46. Long-Term Changes of Optical Properties of Mineral Dust and Its Mixtures Derived from Raman Polariza-tion Water Vapor Lidar in Central Europe.- Chapter 47. Planetary Boundary Layer Height Measurements Using MicroPulse DIAL.- Chapter 48. Performance Modeling of a Diode-Laser-Based Direct Detection Doppler Lidar.- Chapter 49. Observation of Water Vapor Profiles by Raman Lidar with 266 nm laser in Tokyo.- Chapter 50. A 355-NM DIRECT-DETECTION DOPPLER WIND LIDAR FOR VERTICAL ATMOSPHERIC MOTION.- Chapter 51. Aircraft Wake Vortex Recognition and Classification Based on Coherent Doppler Lidar and Convolutional Neural Networks.- Chapter 52. MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidar for Temperature Retrieval in the Lower Troposphere.- Chapter 53. Long Term Calibration of a Pure Rotational Raman Lidar for Temperature Measurements Using Radiosondes and Solar Background.- Chapter 54. Powerful Raman-Lidar for water vapor in the free troposphere and lower stratosphere as well as temperature in the stratosphere and mesosphere.- Chapter 55. Observation of Rainfall Velocity and Raindrop Size Using Power Spectrum of Coherent Doppler Lidar.- Chapter 56. Comparison of Lower Tropospheric Water Vapor Vertical Distribution Measured with Raman lidar and DIAL and Their Impact of Data Assimilation in Numerical Weather Prediction Model.- Chapter 57. Temperature Variations in the Middle Atmosphere Studied with Rayleigh Lidar at Haikou (19.9°N, 110.3°E).- Chapter 58. Convective boundary layer sensible and latent heat flux lidar observations and towards new model parametrizations.- Chapter 59. Observation of Structure of Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer by Ceilometer over the Kuroshio Current.-Chapter 60. ABL Height Different Estimation by Lidar in the Frame of HyMeX SOP1 Campaign.- Chapter 61. Temporal Evolution of Wavelength and Orientation of Atmospheric Canopy Waves.- Chapter 62. Assessment of Planetary Boundary Layer Height Variations over a Mountain Region in Western Himalayas.- Chapter 63. Analysis of Updraft Characteristics from an Airborne Micro-Pulsed Doppler Lidar During FIREX-AQ.- Chapter 64. Diurnal Variability of MLH and Ozone in NYC Urban and Coastal Area from an Integrated Observation during LISTOS 2018.- Chapter 65. Boundary Layer Dynamics, Aerosol Composition, and Air Quality in the Urban Background of Stuttgart in Winter.- Chapter 66. DIAL Ozone Measurement Capability Added to NASA’s HSRL-2 Instrument Demonstrates Troposheric Ozone Variability Over Houston Area.- Chapter 67. Trajectory Analysis of CO2 Concentration Increase Events in the Nocturnal Atmospheric Boundary Layer Observed by the Differential Absorption Lidar.- Chapter 68. Efficiency Assessment of Single Cell Raman Gas Mixture for DIAL Ozone Lidar.- Chapter 69. COmpact RamaN lidar for Atmospheric CO2 and ThERmodyNamic ProfilING - CONCERNING.- Chapter 70. Characterization of Recent Aerosol Events Occurring in the Subtropical North Atlantic Region Using a CIMEL CE376 GPN Micro-LiDAR.- Chapter 71. Tropospheric Ozone Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) Development at New York City.- Chapter 72. Accounting for the polarizing effects introduced from non ideal quarter-wave plates in lidar measurements of the circular depolarization ratio.- Chapter 73. Investigating the geometrical and optical properties of the persistent stratospheric aerosol layer observed over Thessaloniki, Greece during 2019.- Chapter 74. New Lidar Data Processing Techniques for Improving the Detection Range and Accuracy of Atmospheric Gravity Wave Measurements.- Chapter 75. Extending the Useful Range of Fluorescence LIDAR Data by Applying the Layered Binning Technique.- Chapter 76. Interaction between sea wave and surface atmosphere by shallow angle LED lidar.- Chapter 77. First results of the COLOR (CDOM-proxy retrieval from aeOLus ObseRvations) project.- Chapter 78. Dual wavelength heterodyne LDA for velocity and size distribution measurements in ocean water flows.- Chapter 79. Mitigation Strategy for the Impact of Low Energy Laser Pulses in CALIOP Calibration and Level 2 Retrievals.- Chapter 80. Introducing the Cloud Aerosol Lidar for Global Scale Observations of the Ocean-Land-Atmosphere System – CALIGOLA.- Chapter 81. An Overview of the NASA Atmosphere Observing System Inclined Mission (AOS-I) and the Role of Backscatter Lidar.- Chapter 82. Proposal for the Space-borne Integrated Path Differential Absorption (IPDA) Lidar for Lower Tropospheric Water Vapor Observations.- Chapter 83. Assimilation of Aerosol Observations from the Future Spaceborne Lidar Onboard the AOS Mission into the MOCAGE Chemistry-Transport Model.- Chapter 84. Aerosol Optical Properties over Western Himalayas Region by Raman Lidar during the December 2019 Annular Solar Eclipse.- Chapter 85. The Clio HSRL Instrument Concept for the NASA AOS Mission.- Chapter 86. OVERVIEW and STATUS of the METHANE REMOTE SENSING LIDAR MISSION: MERLIN.- Chapter 87. A Simulation Capability Developed for NASA GSFC?s Spaceborne Backscatter Lidars: Overview and Projected Performance for the Upcoming AOS Mission.- Chapter 88. Aerosol Typing and Space-borne Lidars – Potentials and Limitations.- Chapter 89. Correcting CALIOP Polarization Gain Ratios for Diurnal Variations.- Chapter 90. Performance Simulation of a Space-borne Raman Li-dar for ATLAS.- Chapter 91. Column Optical Depth (COD) Derived from CALIOP Ocean Surface Returns.- Chapter 92. Assessing Aeolus Aerosol Observational Capabilities for Data Assimilation in Air Quality and NWP Models.- Chapter 93. High Spectral Resolution Lidars at the University of Wisconsin.- Chapter 94. ATLID Algorithms applied to ALADIN.- Chapter 95. Integrated Mobile System of Two-wavelength Polariza-tion Micro-pulse Lidar and Photometer for Aerosol Properties Retrievals: Comparisons with Reference Li-dar.- Chapter 96. REGIONAL CHANGES IN THE DOMINANT AEROSOL TYPE OVER EUROPE DURING THE ACTRIS COVID-19 CAMPAIGN.- Chapter 97. The Role of Dry Layers and Cold Pools in the Activation of Mesoscale Convective Systems: A Characterization Study based on the Combined Use of Raman Lidar and DIAL Measurements and MESO-NH Model Simulations.- Chapter 98. Advances in Characterizing Pollution Transport with Ground-Based and Airborne Profilers: Case Studies within Houston, TX.- Chapter 99. First Results of Inverted Aerosol Properties through GRASP Algorithm, Using Polarized Data from the Multi-Wavelength Sun-sky-lunar Photometer in Barcelona, Spain.- Chapter 100. Radiative Budget in the Lower Tropical Stratosphere from the Combination of Balloonborne Lidar and Radiometric Measurements.- Chapter 101. Spatial Distribution Analysis of the TROPOMI Aerosol Layer Height: A pixel-by-pixel Comparison to EARLINET and CALIOP Observations.- Chapter 102. First Results from the Aeolus reference lidar eVe during the tropical campaign JATAC at Cabo Verde.- Chapter 103. Analysis of a Mid-Atlantic Ozone Episode using TOLNet and Pandora.- Chapter 104. A Difference of the Depolarization Ratio Detected at Locally Generated Dust and Transported Asian Dust over Japan with AD-Net.- Chapter 105. Identification of Mixed Phase Clouds Using Combined CALIPSO Lidar and Imaging Infrared Radiometer Observations.- Chapter 106. Huntsville Mobile RO3QET Launch.- Chapter 107. Retrieval of Aerosol Properties from Multiwavelength Raman Lidar Data Based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation.- Chapter 108. Polarimetric Multiple Scattering LiDAR Model Based on Poisson Distribution.- Chapter 109. Assimilating Radar and Lidar Observations to Improve the Prediction of Bore Waves during the 2015 PECAN Field Campaign.- Chapter 110. First Discovery of Regular Occurrence of Mid-Latitude Thermosphere-Ionosphere Na (TINa) Layers Observed with High-Sensitivity Na Doppler Lidar and New Data Processing Techniques over Boulder.- Chapter 111. Field-Widened Michelson Interferometer as the Spectral Discriminator in a 1064 nm HSRL.- Chapter 112. Long-Term Monitoring of the Stratosphere by Lidars in the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change.- Chapter 113. Stratospheric Aerosol  45 Years of Lidar Measurements at Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

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John T. Sullivan 

Dr. John T. Sullivan currently works in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD). He is currently the NASA Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet) project scientist and lead for the NASA GSFC NDACC transportable lidar systems for the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC). His expertise is in performing measurements of atmospheric constituents using active remote sensing techniques, such as lidar (light detection and ranging), for applications such as air quality, satellite validation, and stratospheric trends (through NDACC). Dr. Sullivan has been critical in designing, calibrating, and deploying transportable lidars for measuring tropospheric and stratospheric ozone profiles in NASA campaigns, such as DISCOVER-AQ and KORUS-AQ and various NDACC intercomparison campaigns. He has played a lead role for several collaborative field deployments: PI for the 2018 NASA-OWLETS (Chesapeake Bay), Co-PI for the 2021 TRACER-AQ (Houston, TX), and Co-PI for 2023 STAQS (LA/Chicago/NYC). He is also a member of the Committee for Atmospheric LIDAR Application Studies (CLAS) Committee for the American Meteorological Society.

Thierry Leblanc
Dr. Thierry Leblanc obtained his PhD in Atmospheric Physics at University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France) in 1995. He joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1996, where he currently leads the Atmospheric Lidar Group. His research over the past two decades has focused on the long-term monitoring of atmospheric composition by lidar in the troposphere and middle atmosphere, more specifically on the evolution (depletion and recovery) of the stratospheric ozone layer, long-term changes in temperature, water vapor, and aerosols in relation to climate variability and change, and changes in air quality. Dr. Leblanc is a member of several international SME groups, including the International Committee for Laser Atmospheric Studies (ICLAS), the Network for The Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) Steering Committee, and the WMO/GCOS Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN) Working Group.

Sara Tucker
Dr. Sara Tucker has spent the majority of her career focused on Doppler Wind Lidar (DWL) systems and their applications to atmospheric studies and weather prediction.  She received her Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Colorado where she studied Electrical Engineering with a focus on hybrid optical-digital imaging systems. She worked for Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies and NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory before joining Ball Aerospace in 2010.  At Ball, Dr. Tucker works as a Systems Engineering Staff Consultant, providing systems engineering expertise, modelling tools, mentoring, and training for novel space-based lidar mission concepts.  She has served as principal investigator for several NASA Earth Science studies to develop and demonstrate DWL technologies for future space-based operation.  Dr. Tucker is currently a member of American Meteorological Society Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climate (SatMOC) committee, Chair of NASA’s Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC), a member of the NASA Advisory Council Science Committee (NAC-SC), and a member of the International Committee for Laser Atmospheric Studies (ICLAS).

Belay Demoz
Dr. Belay Demoz holds a doctoral degree in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Nevada and Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. He is the Director of the Joint Center For Earth Systems and Technology (JCET) and professor of physics at UMBC. Prior to UMBC, he was Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Howard University, Director of Graduate Studies and  Principal PI’s at the Beltsville Research Campus. Before joining academia, Dr. Demoz has worked for the private industry as a NASA contractor, followed by time as a Civil Servant with. His research interests center on observation and instrumentation in atmospheric physics, dynamics, and climate. He has chaired the Committee for Atmospheric LIDAR Application Studies (CLAS) Committee for the American Meteorological Society, chaired several national and international symposia and conferences and well serves as member and/or Chair of advisory groups for national as well as state agencies and organizations

Edwin Eloranta
Ed Eloranta began working with lidar as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in 1966 investigating multiply scattered lidar returns. Since receiving his PhD 1972, he has led a lidar research group at the UW developing meteorological lidar systems to study boundary layers, clouds and aerosols. He was member of the team which constructed the first High Spectral Resolution Lidar and has subsequently worked to make the instrument a robust operational instrument. His research group currently deploys HSRL instruments in field programs around the globe. He is a fellow of American Meteorological Society and of the Optical Society of America

Chris Hostetler
Dr. Hostetler is the Senior Scientist for Active Remote Sensing at NASA Langley Research Center and has over 30 years of experience in ground-, aircraft-, and space-based lidar. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1993 at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where he conducted mesospheric studies with sodium lidar.  He joined NASA in 1993, where he has focused on aerosol, cloud, and ocean lidar technology and measurements, including participation in the development of the CALIPSO space mission, the development and science deployment of airborne high-spectral-resolution lidars, and the advancement of technologies for spaceborne high-spectral-resolution lidars

Shoken Ishii
Dr. Shoken Ishii obtained his PhD in the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) in 2001.  He joined the Communications Research Laboratory (previous institute of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)) of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications as a post-doctoral researcher in 2000.  He joined the NICT in 2005.  He was a visiting researcher of NASA Langley Research Center in 2014.  His research over the past two decades has focused on the development of coherent lidars for wind and CO2 measurements, experimental observations and analysis of wind and CO2, developments of an eye-safe laser and its related electric instruments, simulations for space-based lidar.  He joined the Tokyo Metropolitan University as a professor of the Faculty of System Design in 2020.  He leads the Aerospace Fundamental Sensing Laboratory focusing on the optical sensing and optical communication. He is a member of the International Committee for Laser Atmospheric Studies (ICLAS), the director of the Laser Radar Society of Japan (LRSJ), and advisory board member of the coherent laser radar conference (CLRC)

Lucia Mona
Dr. Lucia Mona is a researcher at the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Her work has focused in particular on the exploitation of EARLINET database for comparison/integration with other ground-based and satellite measurements and models, and on model evaluation/integration for long-range transport studies. Dr. Mona is responsible for the ARES- ACTRIS DC unit (Aerosol remote Sensing). She is the ACTRIS-A CAMS21b Project Manager. Dr. Mona is Pilot leader in E-shape H2020 project for the “EO4D_ASH - EO Data for Detection, Discrimination and Distribution (4D) of volcanic ash”, and is involved in several H2020 international projects (e.g., ACTRIS IMP, CAMS, PON, ENVRI FAIR, E-shape, DustClim-ERA4CS). She is a member of the WMO SDS-WAS (Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System) Regional Steering Group, and ex-officio member of the WMO Scientific Advisory Group for Aerosol.

Fred Moshary
Fred Moshary is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY) and on the Doctoral Faculty of Earth and Environmental Science program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He joined the City College of New York in 1992.  His research has focused on sensors, sensor networks, and remote sensing techniques, technologies, and application.  He is currently working on active and passive remote sensing of the atmosphere with applications to atmospheric dynamics and air quality.  He leads CCNY’s Optical Remote Sensing Laboratory, and is the Director of the NOAA Cooperative Science Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies (NOAA CESSRST).  He is a member of the International Coordinating Group for Laser Atmospheric Studies (ICLAS) since 2017 and  serves as the president of ICLAS since 2022.

Alexandros Papayannis
Dr. Alex. Papayannis graduated from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) as Dipl. Electrical Engineer (1984). He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics and Remote Sensing, from the University of Paris 7 (France), 1989. He joined NTUA in 1990, where he is actually full Professor. Since 2023, he is also Visiting Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His research interests include the laser remote sensing of the atmosphere, the technology and physics of lasers, atmospheric optics–physics of the atmosphere– environmental physics-laser spectroscopy and air pollution. In the last two decades he works on the detection of the aerosol optical, microphysical and bio-physical properties, as well as on the detection of ozone and water vapour, using the Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) and the Raman techniques. He is actually Head of the Laser Remote Sensing Unit and Director of the Laboratory of Optoelectronics, Lasers and their Applications (NTUA). He has served as President of the International Coordination Group for Laser Atmospheric Studies (ICLAS) and Member of the International Radiation Commission (IRC) (2015-2022). He was President of the Organizing and Scientific Committee of the 26th ILRC Conference, held in Greece (2012)

Krishna Rupavatharam
Dr. Krishna Rupavatharam is the Director of Spectrum Lab, a controlled research center at Montana State University.  Krishna obtained his Ph.D in Optical Physics, from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He worked at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden prior to joining Spectrum Lab. Krishna's research areas include developing applications in microwave signal processing based on S2 technology, coherent lidar based sensing and imaging, and quantum communications and networking. Krishna has authored more than 100 technical papers published in refereed journals and proceedings and has multiple patents in microwave photonics and coherent lidar. Krishna has been a consultant for several photonics companies and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Montana Photonics Industry Alliance. He is also serves as a member of the NASA NESC Technical Discipline Team.

Blurb

This volume presents papers from the biennial International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC), the world’s leading event in the field of atmospheric research using lidar. With growing environmental concerns to address such as air quality deterioration, stratospheric ozone depletion, extreme weather events, and changing climate, the lidar technique has never been as critical as it is today to monitor, alert, and help solve current and emerging problems of this century. The 30th occurrence of the ILRC unveils many of the newest results and discoveries in atmospheric science and laser remote sensing technology. The 30th ILRC conference program included all contemporary ILRC themes, leveraging on both the past events’ legacy and the latest advances in lidar technologies and scientific discoveries, with participation by young scientists particularly encouraged.

This proceedings volume includes a compilation of cutting-edge research on the following themes: new lidar techniques and methodologies; measurement of clouds and aerosol properties; atmospheric temperature, wind, turbulence, and waves; atmospheric boundary layer processes and their role in air quality and climate; greenhouse gases, tracers, and transport in the free troposphere and above; the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere; synergistic use of multiple instruments and techniques, networks and campaigns; model validation and data assimilation using lidar measurements; space-borne lidar missions, instruments and science; ocean lidar instrumentation, techniques, and retrievals; and past, present and future synergy of heterodyne and direct detection lidar applications. In addition, special sessions celebrated 50 years of lidar atmospheric observations since the first ILRC, comprising review talks followed by a plenary discussion on anticipated future directions.