A fully autonomous ozone, aerosol and nighttime water vapor lidar: a synergistic approach to profiling the atmosphere in the Canadian oil sands region

Strawbridge, Kevin B.; Travis, Michael S.; Firanski, Bernard J.; Brook, Jeffrey R.; Staebler, Ralf; Leblanc, Thierry

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6735-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6735-2018

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Atmospheric emissions from oil sands development and their...

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6735-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 11, issue 12

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19 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 19 Dec 2018

A fully autonomous ozone, aerosol and nighttime water vapor lidar: a synergistic approach to profiling the atmosphere in the Canadian oil sands region

Kevin B. Strawbridge, Michael S. Travis, Bernard J. Firanski, Jeffrey R. Brook, Ralf Staebler, and Thierry Leblanc

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Authors response to RC2', Kevin Strawbridge, 16 Aug 2018
- AC2: 'Authors response to RC1', Kevin Strawbridge, 16 Aug 2018
RC2: 'AMT-2018-108 referee review', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Authors response to RC2', Kevin Strawbridge, 16 Aug 2018

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AR by Kevin Strawbridge on behalf of the Authors (16 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Aug 2018) by Mark Weber

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (11 Sep 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (25 Sep 2018) by Mark Weber

AR by Kevin Strawbridge on behalf of the Authors (01 Oct 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 Oct 2018) by Mark Weber

Short summary

Environment and Climate Change Canada has recently developed a fully autonomous, mobile lidar system to simultaneously measure the vertical profile of tropospheric ozone, aerosol and water vapor from near the ground to altitudes reaching 10–15 km. These atmospheric constituents play an important role in climate, air quality, and human and ecosystem health. Using an autonomous multi-lidar approach provides a continuous dataset rich in information for atmospheric process studies.