The development of a Micropulsed Doppler (MD) Lidar and deployment of this compact system on mobile air-borne, ship-borne, and truck-borne platforms opened a new opportunity to characterize the dynamics of large-scale, complex wind flows in the atmospheric boundary layer in all regions, from urban areas to remote locations in complex terrain. Traditional in-situ or stationary profiling observations cannot provide the flexible combination of spatial and temporal coverage fully available from mobile lidars. The Atmospheric Remote Sensing (ARS) group at the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) successfully operated mobile Doppler lidars from various platforms providing unique measurements to characterize ocean and atmospheric processes, to study the complex flow of winds around wildland fires, and to understand the effect of a large wind farm on wind flows under different atmospheric conditions.
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