Raman lidar measurements of tropospheric water vapor over Hefei

L625 Raman lidar has been developed for water vapor measurements over Hefei, China since September2000. By transmitting laser beam of frequency-tripled Nd:YAG laser, Raman scattering signals of watervapor and nitrogen molecules are simultaneously detected by the cooled photomultipliers with photoncounting mode. Water vapor mixing ratios measured by Raman lidar show the good agreements withradiosonde observations, which indicates this Raman lidar is reliable. Many observation cases show thataerosol optical parameters have the good correlation with water vapor distribution in the lower troposphere.