Backscattered radiation
Measurement Categories: Aerosols, Cloud Properties
Description: The scattering of radiant energy into the hemisphere of space bounded by a plane normal to the direction of the incident radiation and lying on the same side as the incident ray.
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Instruments that produce the measurement
The above measurement is considered scientifically relevant for the following instruments. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers of each instrument for a list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- ARM Instruments
- External Instruments
- Field Campaign Instruments
- Aerosol Observation System (AOS)
- Dial Lidar (LIDAR-DIAL)
- Gulfstream (G-1)
- In-situ Aerosol Profiles (Cessna Aerosol Flights) (IAP)
- Micropulse Lidar (MPL)
- NOAA Research Vessel Ron Brown (RONBROWN)
- Normalized Backscatter Profiles from the Micropulse Lidar (MPLNOR)
- PNNL's Atmospheric Remote Sensing Laboratory (PARSL)
- Radar Wind Profiler (50 MHz) (50RWP)
- Radar Wind Profiler (915 MHz) (915RWP)
- Raman LIDAR Vertical Profiles (RLPROF)
- Raman Lidar (RL)
- Twin Otter Lidar Profiles (TWIN-OTTER-LI-PROF)
- UAV Proteus (UAV-PROTEUS)
- UAV-Egrett (UAV-EGRETT)
- University of Washington Convair 580 Aircraft (UW-CONVAIR580)
- Vaisala Ceilometer (VCEIL)
Value-Added Products (VAPs) including the measurement
- (MPL) Micropulse Lidar Process
- mplnor1camp - MPL: backscatter profiles normalized and cloud detection routine applied.
- (MPLNOR) Normalized Backscatter Profiles from the Micropulse Lidar Process
- mplnor1camp - MPL: backscatter profiles normalized and cloud detection routine applied.
- (RLPROF) Raman LIDAR Vertical Profiles Process
- 10rlprofasr1ferr - Raman Lidar (RL): aerosol scattering ratio and backscattering coefficient profiles
- 10rlprofbe1turn - Raman LIDAR (RL): Best-estimate state of the atmos. profiles from RL & AERI+GOES retrievals
- 10rlprofext1ferr - Raman LIDAR (RL): aerosol extinction profiles and aerosol optical thickness
- rlprofmerge1turn - Merged analog and photon counting profiles used as input for other RLPROF VAPs
Datastreams including the measurement
- (1290RWP) Radar Wind Profiler (1290 MHz) Datastreams
- 1290rwpwindspec - 1290-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP1290): wind spectra
- (50RWP) Radar Wind Profiler (50 MHz) Datastreams
- 50rwptempspec - 50-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP50): temperature spectra
- (915RWP) Radar Wind Profiler (915 MHz) Datastreams
- 915rwptemp - 915-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP915): virtual temperature profile data
- 915rwpwind - 915-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP915): wind profile data
- (AOS) Aerosol Observation System Datastreams
- aos - Aerosol Observing System (AOS): aerosol data, 1-min
- (IAP) In-situ Aerosol Profiles (Cessna Aerosol Flights) Datastreams
- (MPL) Micropulse Lidar Datastreams
- (RL) Raman Lidar Datastreams
- rl - Raman lidar (RL): raw backscattered profiles at 355, 387, and 408 nm
- (VCEIL) Vaisala Ceilometer Datastreams
- vceil25k - Vaisala Ceilometer (VCEIL): cloud base heights, 25,000 feet max range