Evaluation of Column CO2Retrieval from Intensity-Modulated Continuous-Wave Differential Absorption Lidar Measurements during ACT-America

Joel F Campbell1, Bing Lin2, Michael D Obland1, Jeremy Todd Dobler3, Wayne H. Erxleben4, Doug McGregor5, Edward V Browell6, Chris O'Dell7, Emily Bell8, Sandip Pal9, Brad Weir10, Tai-Fang (Alice) Fan11, Susan A Kooi12, Abigail Corbett13, Kenneth J Davis14, Roman V Kochanov15 and Iouli Gordon16, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center - LARC, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Spectral Sensor Solutions LLC, Environmental Sensing, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, (4)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Harris Space and Intelligence Systems, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Yorktown, VA, United States, (7)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)Colorado State University, Fort Colins, CO, United States, (9)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (12)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (13)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (14)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (15)Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Quantum Mechanics of Molecules and Radiative Processes, Tomsk, Russia, (16)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Cambridge, MA, United States