BackForwardInstrument:  ATLID 

Instrument details
Acronym ATLID
Full name Atmospheric Lidar
Purpose Aerosol profile, cloud top height
Short description Single-wavelength (355 nm), High Spectral Resolution Laser (HSRL) to discriminate Mie and Rayleigh scattering components, thus improve aerosol type classification
Background New development
Scanning Technique Near-nadir viewing 2° ahead along-track, sampling at 100 m intervals along track, near continuous profiling
Resolution Horizontal: 30 m IFOV sampled at 100 m intervals along track.  Vertical: 100 m
Coverage / Cycle Global coverage in 16 d for cells of 100 km side
Mass 230 kg Power 310 W Data Rate 822 kbps

 

Providing Agency ESA
Instrument Maturity Backed by strong heritage
Utilization Period: 2024 to 2027
Last update: 2021-06-15
Detailed characteristics
Satellites this instrument is flying on

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Instrument classification
  • Earth observation instrument
  • Active and radio-occultation sensor
  • Lidar (Doppler lidar, backscatter lidar, lidar Dial, lidar altimeter)
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 2
  • Lidar (Doppler and dual/triple-frequency backscatter)
  • Lidar (Backscatter - for atmosphere)
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Aerosol Optical Depth
  • Aerosol column burden
  • Aerosol effective radius
  • Aerosol mass mixing ratio
  • Aerosol type
  • Aerosol volcanic ash
  • Aerosol volcanic ash Total Column
  • Cloud optical depth
  • Cloud top height
  • Height of the top of PBL
  • Height of the tropopause
Evaluation of Measurements