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Atmospheric Research at Top of Germany: Zugspitze Mountain

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Atmospheric Research at Top of Germany: Zugspitze Mountain

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The important goal of quantitative lidar measurements of atmospheric water vapor with lidar even above 10 km requires high-power ultraviolet lasers to extend the operating range by Raman backscattering of the laser pulses. Researchers of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, modified a 350 watt industrial XeCl exci- mer laser from Coherent and combined it with larger signal collection optics to increase system S/N by a factor of about 40 compared to existing Nd:YAG-based Raman-lidar instruments. From a laboratory at 2675 m in the Schneefernerhaus observation station (UFS) on Mount Zugspitze (2962 m) in Germany they now quantitatively measure water vapor to altitu- des as high as 20 km with a 10X reduction in data acquisition times.

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