ORACLE (Ozone Research with Advanced Cooperative Lidar Experiment): joint NASA-CSA development of a space-based ozone dial

Donald J. Ball; Alexander E. Dudelzak; Fernand Rheault; Edward V. Browell; Syed Ismail; John H. Stadler; Raymond M. Hoff; C. Thomas McElroy; Allan I. Carswell; John F. Hahn; Arkady Ulitsky

doi:10.1117/12.332422

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7 December 1998 ORACLE (Ozone Research with Advanced Cooperative Lidar Experiment): joint NASA-CSA development of a space-based ozone dial

Donald J. Ball; Alexander E. Dudelzak; Fernand Rheault; Edward V. Browell; Syed Ismail; John H. Stadler; Raymond M. Hoff; C. Thomas McElroy; Allan I. Carswell; John F. Hahn; Arkady Ulitsky

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Proceedings Volume 3494, Atmospheric Propagation, Adaptive Systems, and Lidar Techniques for Remote Sensing II; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332422
Event: Remote Sensing, 1998, Barcelona, Spain

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This paper is presented to give a general description of the ORACLE project and of the technology development results obtained to date. ORACLE is a feasibility study of a fully automated differential absorption lidar for global measurements of tropospheric and stratospheric ozone and aerosols with high vertical and horizontal resolution. The proposed program includes both novel technology demonstrations and obtaining scientific data from spacecraft. These data are needed to address key issues in atmospheric research including the depletion of stratospheric ozone, global warming, atmospheric transport and dynamics, tropospheric ozone budgets, atmospheric chemistry, and the atmospheric impact of hazards. Only a space-based lidar system can provide the required spatial resolution for ozone and aerosols in both the stratosphere and the troposphere on a global scale at all required altitudes. To deliver these data, the most novel technologies such as all-solid-state lasers, photon-counting detectors and ultra-lightweight deployable telescopes must be employed in the mission payload.

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Donald J. Ball, Alexander E. Dudelzak, Fernand Rheault, Edward V. Browell, Syed Ismail, John H. Stadler, Raymond M. Hoff, C. Thomas McElroy, Allan I. Carswell, John F. Hahn, and Arkady Ulitsky "ORACLE (Ozone Research with Advanced Cooperative Lidar Experiment): joint NASA-CSA development of a space-based ozone dial", Proc. SPIE 3494, Atmospheric Propagation, Adaptive Systems, and Lidar Techniques for Remote Sensing II, (7 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332422

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