GRIP LIDAR ATMOSPHERIC SENSING EXPERIMENT (LASE) V1

The GRIP Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE) dataset was collected by NASA's Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE) system, which is an airborne Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) system used to measure water vapor, aerosols, and clouds throughout the troposphere. LASE is onboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft and probes the atmosphere using lasers to transmit light in the 815-nm absorption band of water vapor. Pulses of laser light are fired vertically below the aircraft. A small fraction of the transmitted laser light is reflected from the atmosphere back to the aircraft and collected with a telescope receiver. The received light indicates the amount of water vapor along the path of the laser beam. LASE operated in the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment with data spanning between August 13, 2010 through September 25, 2010. The major goal was to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. NASA used the DC-8 aircraft, the WB-57 aircraft and the Global Hawk Unmanned Airborne System (UAS), configured with a suite of in situ and remote sensing instruments that were used to observe and characterize the lifecycle of hurricanes.

NASA之GRIP大气激光雷达传感实验（LASE）数据集，系由NASA激光雷达大气传感实验（LASE）系统所采集，该系统为一架机载差分吸收激光雷达（DIAL）系统，旨在对对流层中的水汽、气溶胶和云层进行测量。LASE搭载于NASA的DC-8飞机上，利用激光在该机载设备上对大气进行探测，发射光波进入水汽的815纳米吸收波段。激光脉冲垂直向下发射，其中一小部分反射回飞机，并由望远镜接收器收集。接收到的光波揭示了激光束路径上的水汽含量。LASE在Genesis和快速增强过程（GRIP）实验中运行，数据覆盖了2010年8月13日至9月25日。主要目标在于深入理解热带风暴的形成与发展为大型飓风的过程。NASA利用DC-8飞机、WB-57飞机以及全球鹰无人机系统（UAS），配备了多种原位和遥感仪器，用以观察和描绘飓风的生命周期。