| Abbreviation | Instrument | Description |
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| DALEK | Doppler lidar | |
| FLOE | Fish Lidar, Oceanic, Experimental | Airborne lidar for fisheries surveys |
| HALO | HALO doppler lidar | |
| HRDL | High Resolution Doppler Lidar | High spatial temporal and velocity resolution wind profiles, Boundary layer turbulence and entrainment zone studies and flux measurements |
| MicroDop | Micro-pulse Doppler lidar | Conical or Vertical scanning Doppler lidar for wind profiles and Aerosol Backscatter Intensity (ABI) |
| Mini-MOPA CO2 | Doppler Lidar | Provides vertical profiles of wind speed, wind direction, turbulence, aerosol species concentration (DIAL), cloud geometry and microphysical parameters |
| TOPAZ | Tunable optical profiler for aerosol and ozone lidar | Capable of measuring ozone concentration in the lower troposphere from an airborne platform with uncertainties of only a few ppbv at 90-m vertical and 600-m horizontal resolution |
| Abbreviation | Instrument | Description |
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| ABAEL | Airborne Aerosol Lidar | Designed to detect aerosol layers in the atmosphere from an aircraft |
| ABDIAL | Airborne Eximer Ozone DIAL | Airborne mapping of lower tropospheric ozone and aerosol distributions |
| CODI | Compact Water Vapor DIAL | Automated lidar to continuously profile water vapor in lower troposphere | |
| DABUL | Depolarization and Backscatter Unattended Lidar | Monitors and studies the radiative effects of aerosols and thin clouds in the upper troposphere |
| OPAL | Ozone Profiling Atmospheric Lidar | Used to monitor ozone and aerosol formation, evolution and transport |
| TEA CO2 | Doppler Lidar | Measured particle backscatter and radial velocity |