Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2001-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2001-2018
Research article
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10 Apr 2018
Research article |  | 10 Apr 2018

Airborne measurements of CO2 column concentrations made with a pulsed IPDA lidar using a multiple-wavelength-locked laser and HgCdTe APD detector

James B. Abshire, Anand K. Ramanathan, Haris Riris, Graham R. Allan, Xiaoli Sun, William E. Hasselbrack, Jianping Mao, Stewart Wu, Jeffrey Chen, Kenji Numata, Stephan R. Kawa, Mei Ying Melissa Yang, and Joshua DiGangi

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AR by James Abshire on behalf of the Authors (08 Feb 2018)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (13 Feb 2018) by William R. Simpson
AR by James Abshire on behalf of the Authors (15 Feb 2018)  Author's response    Manuscript

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AA by James Abshire on behalf of the Authors (27 Mar 2018)   Author's adjustment  
EA: Adjustments approved (04 Apr 2018) by William R. Simpson
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Short summary
Here we report on measurements made with an improved CO2 Sounder lidar during the ASCENDS 2014 and 2016 airborne campaigns. The results from the 2016 airborne lidar retrievals show precisions of ~ 0.8 parts per million (ppm) with 1 s averaging over desert surfaces. The results from both campaigns showed the mean values of XCO2 retrieved from the lidar consistently agreed with those based on the in situ sensor to within 1 ppm.