Lidar Measurements of Wind, and Cloud and Aerosol Structures Using HARLIE at the WVIOP, September/October 2000

A new scanning lidar called Holographic Airborne Rotating Lidar Instrument Experiment (HARLIE) (Schwemmer 1998) was deployed on the ground in an upward-looking mode during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) Water Vapor Intensive Operational Period (WVIOP) from September to October 2000. Using HARLIE, we made over 110 hours of measurements of aerosol and cloud backscatter and derived the horizontal wind speed and direction at cloud height over the ARM SGP site between September 17 and October 6, 2000.