A coherent Doppler lidar has been used in an aircraft to measure the 2-dimensional wind field in a number of different atmospheric situations. The lidar, a pulsed CO2 system, was installed in the NASA Convair 990, Galileo II, and flown in a summer field program that included flights in California, in Oklahoma at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, and in Montana at the Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment (CCOPE). This paper provides a brief description of the instrumentation and summarizes the research flights. Examples of some of the results are given along with plans for future use of the lidar.
1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Information and Electronic Systems Laboratory, AL 35812.
2 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Systems Dynamics Laboratory, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812.
3 Raytheon Company, Electro-Optics Dept., Advanced Development Laboratories, Sudbury, MA 01776.
4 Lassen Research, Manton, CA 96059.
