Publications of Shane D. Mayor

Publications of Shane D. Mayor

Smyth, W. D., S. D. Mayor, and Q. Lian, 2023: The role of ambient turbulence in canopy waves generation by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, Bound. Layer Meteor. Link

Mayor, S. D. and P. Dérian, 2018: Comments on “Wind Gust Detection and Impact Prediction for Wind Turbines". Remote Sens. 10, 1625. PDF Link

Mayor, S. D., 2017: Observations of microscale internal gravity waves in very stable atmospheric boundary layers over an orchard canopy. Agric. For. Meteorol. 244-245, 136-150. PDF Link

Mayor, S. D., P. Dérian, C. F. Mauzey, S. M. Spuler, P. Ponsardin, J. Pruitt, D. Ramsey, and N. S. Higdon, 2016: Comparison of an analog direct detection and a micropulse aerosol lidar at 1.5-microns wavelength for wind field observations---with first results over the ocean. J. Appl. Remote Sens. 10, 016031, doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.10.016031. PDF SPIE

Hamada, M., P. Dérian, C. F. Mauzey, and S. D. Mayor, 2016: Optimization of the cross-correlation algorithm for two-component wind field estimation from single aerosol lidar data and comparison with Doppler lidar. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol. 33, 81-101. PDF AMS

Dérian, P., C. F. Mauzey, and S. D. Mayor, 2015: Wavelet-based optical flow for two-component wind field estimation from single aerosol lidar data. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 32, 1759-1778. PDF AMS

Sun, J., C. J. Nappo, L. Mahrt, D. Belušić, B. Grisogono, D. R. Stauffer, M. Pulido, C. Staquet, Q. Jiang, A. Pouquet, C. Yagüe, B. Galperin, R. B. Smith, J. J. Finnigan, S. D. Mayor, G. Svensson, A. A. Grachev, and W. D. Neff, 2015: Review of wave-turbulence interactions in the stable atmospheric boundary layer, Rev. Geophys., 53, doi:10.1002/2015RG000487. PDF

Mayor, S. D., J. P. Lowe, and C. F. Mauzey, 2012: Two-component horizontal aerosol motion vectors in the atmospheric surface layer from a cross-correlation algorithm applied to scanning elastic backscatter lidar data, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol. 29, 1585-1602. PDF

Lenschow, D. H., M. Lothon, S. D. Mayor, and P. P. Sullivan, 2012: A comparison of higher-order vertical velocity moments in the convective boundary layer from lidar with in situ measurements and LES, Bound. Layer Meteor., 143, 107-123. DOI 10.1007/s10546-011-9615-3. LINK

Mayor, S. D., 2011: Observations of seven atmospheric density current fronts in Dixon, California, Mon. Wea. Rev., 139, 1338-1351. PDF

Patton, E. G., T. W. Horst, P. P. Sullivan, D. H. Lenschow, S. P. Oncley, W. O. J. Brown, S. P. Burns, A. B. Guenther, A. Held, T. Karl, S. D. Mayor, L. V. Rizzo, S. M. Spuler, J. Sun, A. A. Turnipseed, E. J. Allwine, S. L. Edburg, B. K. Lamb, R. Avissar, R. Calhoun, J. Kleissl, W. J. Massman, K. T. Paw U, J. C. Weil, 2011: The Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (CHATS), Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 92, 593-611. PDF

National Academy of Sciences, 2010: BioWatch and Public Health Surveillance: Evaluating Systems for the Early Detection of Biological Threats. Washington, D.C. LINK

De Wekker, S. F. J. and S. D. Mayor, 2009: Observations of atmospheric structure and dynamics in the Owens Valley of California with a ground-based, eye-safe, scanning aerosol lidar. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 48, 1483-1499. PDF

Lothon, M., D. H. Lenschow, and S. D. Mayor, 2009: Doppler lidar measurements of vertical velocity spectra in the convective planetary boundary layer, Bound. Layer Meteor., 132, 205-226. LINK

Doyle, J. D., V. Grubišić, W. O. J. Brown, S. F. J. De Wekker, A. Dörnbrack, Q. Jiang, S. D. Mayor, M. Weissmann, 2009: Observations and numerical simulations of subrotor vortices during T-REX. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 1229-1249. PDF

Refaat, T. F., S. Ismail, M. N. Abedin, S. M. Spuler, S. D. Mayor, and U. N. Singh, 2008: Lidar backscatter signal recovery from phototransistor systematic effect by deconvolution. Appl. Optics, 47, 5281-5295. LINK

Mayor, S. D., P. Benda, C. Murata and R. J. Danzig, 2008: Lidars: A key component of urban biodefense. Biosecur. Bioterror., 6, 45-56. LINK

National Academy of Sciences, 2008: Test and Evaluation of Biological Standoff Detection Systems, Washington, D.C. LINK

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley, E. Loew, 2007: Polarization lidar at 1.54-microns and observations of plumes from aerosol generators. Opt. Eng., 46, 096201. LINK

Refaat, T. F., S. Ismail, T. L. Mack, M. N. Abedin, S. D. Mayor, S. M. Spuler, U. Singh, 2007: Infrared Phototransistor Validation for Atmospheric Remote Sensing Application using the Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL). Opt. Eng., 46, 086001. LINK

Spuler, S. M. and S. D. Mayor, 2007: Raman shifter optimized for lidar at 1.5-micron wavelength. Appl. Optics, 46, 2990-2995. LINK

Warner, T., P. Benda, S. Swerdlin, J. Knievel, E. Argenta, B. Aronian, B. Balsley, J. Bowers, R. Carter, P. A. Clark, K. Clawson, J. Copeland, A. Crook, R. Frehlich, M. L. Jensen, Y. Liu, S. Mayor, Y. Meillier, B. Morley, R. Sharman, S. Spuler, D. Storwold, J. Sun, J. Weil, M. Xu, A. Yates, and Y. Zhang, 2007: The Pentagon Shield Field Program Toward Critical Infrastructure Protection. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 88, 167-176. PDF

Lothon, M., D. H. Lenschow, and S. D. Mayor, 2006: Coherence and scale of vertical velocity in the convective boundary layer from a Doppler lidar, Bound. Layer Meteor., 119, 521-536. LINK

Spuler, S. M. and S. D. Mayor, 2005: Scanning Eye-safe Elastic Backscatter Lidar at 1.54 microns, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 22, 696-703. PDF

Mayor, S. D., and S. M. Spuler, 2004: Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar, Appl. Optics, 43, 3915-3924. LINK

Mayor, S. D., G. J. Tripoli, and E. W. Eloranta, 2003: Evaluating large-eddy simulations using volume imaging lidar data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 1428-1453. PDF

Mayor, S. D., P. R. Spalart, and G. J. Tripoli, 2002: Application of a perturbation recycling technique in a large-eddy simulation of a mesoscale convective internal boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 2385-2395. PDF

Mayor, S.D. and E. W. Eloranta, 2001: Two-dimensional vector wind fields from volume imaging lidar data, J. Appl. Meteor., 40, 1331-1346. PDF

Mayor, S. D., D. H. Lenschow, R. L. Schwiesow, J. Mann, C. L. Frush, and M. K. Simon, 1997: Validation of 10.6-micron CO₂ NCAR Doppler lidar radial velocity measurements and comparison with a 915-MHz profiler, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 14, 1110-1126. PDF

Senff, C. J., R. M. Hardesty, R. J. Alvarez, S. D. Mayor, 1998: Airborne lidar characterization of power plant plumes during the 1995 Southern Oxidants Study, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 31173-31189. LINK

Banta, R. M., C. J. Senff, A. B. White, M. Trainer, R. T. McNider, R. J. Valente, S. D. Mayor, R. J. Alvarez, R. M. Hardesty, D. Parrish, F. C. Fehsenfeld, 1998: Daytime buildup and nighttime transport of urban ozone in the boundary layer during a stagnation episode, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 22519-22544. LINK

Sullivan, P. P., C.-H. Moeng, B. Stevens, D. H. Lenschow, and S. D. Mayor, 1998: Structure of the entrainment zone capping the convective atmospheric boundary layer, J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 3042-3064. PDF

Cohn, S. A., S. D. Mayor, C. J. Grund, T. Weckwerth, C. Senff, 1998: The Lidars in Flat Terrain (LIFT) Experiment, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 1329-1343. PDF

Higdon, N. S., E. V. Browell, P. Ponsardin, B. E. Grossmann, C. F. Butler, T. H. Chyba, M. N. Mayo, R. J. Allen, A.W. Heuser,W. B. Grant, S. Ismail, S. D. Mayor and A. Carter, 1994: Airborne differential absorption lidar system for measurement of atmospheric water vapor and aerosols, Appl. Optics, 33, 6422-6438. LINK

Schwiesow, R. L., S. D. Mayor, V. M. Glover and D. H. Lenschow, 1990: Intersection of a sloping aerosol layer observed by airborne lidar with a cloud-capped marine boundary layer, J. Appl. Meteor., 29, 1111-1119. PDF

Select Conference Papers and Presentations

Colombini, J. E., A. Espinoza-Ruiz, E. K. Everton, P. Dérian, and S. D. Mayor, 2023: Temporal evolution of wavelength and orientation of atmospheric canopy waves. Poster 452 at the 24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, Tues., Jan. 10, Denver, Colorado. Link Poster Photo

Espinoza-Ruiz, A., S. D. Mayor, and W. D. Smyth, 2023: Evidence of atmospheric canopy wave breaking in scanning aerosol lidar images. Poster 991 at the 24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, Thurs., Jan. 12, Denver, Colorado. Link Poster Photo

Mayor, S. D., E. Ayars, K. A. Scheive, E. Cobian, J. M. Frank, and W. J. Massman, 2023: Evaluation of the Infineon DPS310 for observations of turbulent pressure perturbations. Abstract for poster presentation submitted to the 24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, Tues., Jan. 10, Denver, Colorado. Link Poster Photo

Smyth, W. D., S. D. Mayor, and Q. Lian, 2023: The role of ambient turbulence in canopy wave generation by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Poster 990 at the 24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, Thurs., Jan. 12, Denver, Colorado. Link Poster Photo

Espinoza-Ruiz, A., J. E. Colombini, E. K. Everton, P. Dérian, and S. D. Mayor, 2022: Temporal evolution of wavelength and orientation of atmospheric canopy waves. Poster presentation, 30th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC). June 26-July 1, 2022.

Mifsud, K. E., M. Iqbal, P. Dérian, S. D. Mayor, 2021: Objective determination of wavelength and orientation of atmospheric canopy waves. Poster A45C-1867 at Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 16 December, New Orleans, LA.

Mayor, S. D., W. D. Smyth, Q. Lian, and A. Mashayek, 2019: Primary and secondary instabilities of turbulent, nocturnal canopy flows. Poster A13N-3148 at Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 9 December, San Francisco, CA.

Rocha-Brownell, K. D., P. Dérian, D. H. Richter, P. P. Sullivan, and S. D. Mayor, 2017: Evaluation of a wavelet-based optical flow algorithm through the use of large eddy simulations, Poster presentation at 28th International Laser Radar Conference, 25-30 June. Bucharest, Romania.

Mayor, S. D., 2017: Observations of microscale internal gravity waves over an orchard canopy, Oral presentation at Propagation through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena at the OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, 26 - 29 June, San Francisco, CA.

Bieringer, P., S. Higdon, G. Bieberbach, J. Hurst, and S. D. Mayor, 2017: Assimilation of lidar backscatter and wind data into atmospheric transport and dispersion model, Oral presentation 11.4 at AMS Eighth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, 25 January, Seattle, WA.

Rocha-Brownell, K. D., P. Dérian, D. H. Richter, P. P. Sullivan, and S. D. Mayor, 2017: Evaluation of a wavelet-based optical flow algorithm through the use of large eddy simulations, Oral presentation 11.2 at AMS Eighth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, 25 January, Seattle, WA.

Rocha-Brownell, K. D., P. Dérian, D. H. Richter, P. P. Sullivan, and S. D. Mayor, 2016: Evaluation of a wavelet-based optical flow algorithm through the use of large eddy simulations, Oral presentation A21I-07 at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

Mayor, S. D., 2016: Observations of Canopy Waves from CHATS. Oral presentation at the American Meteorological Society's 32nd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 20-24 June, Salt Lake City, UT.

Mayor, S. D., 2016: Two-component wind fields in the atmospheric surface layer over the ocean. Poster presentation at the American Meteorological Society's 22nd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 20-24 June, Salt Lake City, UT.

Bieringer, P. E., S. Higdon, G. Bieberbach, J. Hurst, and S. D. Mayor, 2016: Lidar backscatter and wind data assimilation into the second order closure integrated PUFF (SCIPUFF) model. Oral presentation at the 20th Annual George Mason University Conference on Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling, 14-16 June, Fairfax, VA.

Mayor, S. D., 2016: Recent progress in wind field sensing by aerosol lidar and motion estimation algorithms. Oral presentation at the Optical Society of America's (OSA) Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 5-10 June, San Jose, CA.

Mayor, S. D., P. Dérian, and C. F. Mauzey, 2015: Two-component wind fields from single scanning aerosol lidar, Paper 9612-13, SPIE, 13 August, San Diego, CA.

Mayor, S. D., P. Dérian, C. F. Mauzey, D. L. Ramsey, J. Pruitt, P. Ponsardin, and N. S. Higdon, 2015: Comparison of aerosol backscatter and wind field estimates from REAL and SAMPLE, Paper 9612-16, SPIE, 13 August, San Diego, CA.

Mayor, S. D., 2015: Observations of two-component wind fields from aerosol lidar and motion estimation algorithms including first results over rough sea states, Oral presentation #28 at the International Conference on Model Integration across Disparate Scales in Complex Turbulent Flow Simulation (ICMIDS). 16 June, State College, PA.

Mayor, S. D., P. Dérian, C. F. Mauzey, and M. Hamada, 2015: Two-component wind fields from single scanning aerosol lidar, Oral presentation J1.3 at the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, 95th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Phoenix, AZ, 4-8 January.

Mayor, S. D., P. Dérian, M. Hamada, and C. F. Mauzey, 2014: Two-component vector wind fields by scanning aerosol lidar, Presentation A43B-3271 in Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence Posters, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December.

Mayor, S. D., P. Dérian, C. F. Mauzey, N. S. Higdon, and T. H. Chyba, 2014: Two-component wind vector fields from scanning aerosol lidars. Oral presentation (given by T. H. Chyba) at 18th Annual George Mason University Conference on Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling. 24-25 June. Fairfax, VA.

Mayor, S. D., P. Dérian, C. F. Mauzey, and M. Hamada, 2014: Recent progress in 2-component wind field observations by the REAL and motion estimation algorithms. Oral presentation 13A.2 at the American Meteorological Society's 21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 9-13 June, Leeds, UK.

Dérian, P., C. F. Mauzey, and S. D. Mayor, 2014: Wavelet optical flow for 2-component wind fields from aerosol backscatter lidar data. Poster presentation at the American Meteorological Society's 21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 9-13 June, Leeds, UK.

Mauzey, C. F., P. Dérian, and S. D. Mayor, 2014: Wavelet-based optical flow for real-time wind estimation using CUDA, Poster presentation. GPU Technology Conference (GTC), 24-27 March, San Jose, CA.

Mayor, S. D., P. Dérian, C. F. Mauzey, M. Hamada, 2013: Two-component wind fields from scanning aerosol lidar and motion estimation algorithms. Paper 9972-7. SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 25-29 August 2013, San Diego, CA.

Mayor, S. D., D. Scott, A. Petrova-Mayor, B. M. Morley, R. W. Wortley, 2013: Recent improvements to the Raman-shifted eye-safe aerosol lidar (REAL). Paper 9972-10. SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 25-29 August 2013, San Diego, CA.

Mayor, S. D., P. Dérian, C. F. Mauzey, T. Henry, E. Mémin, M. Hamada, and D. Scott, 2013: Two-component wind fields from scanning aerosol lidar and motion estimation algorithms. Accepted to WindPower 2013, Chicago IL, 5-8 May 2013.

Randall, T. N. and S. D. Mayor, 2013: Lidar observations of fine-scale internal gravity waves. Poster presentation 715 in Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, 9 January, Austin, TX. ABSTRACT

Mayor, S. D., 2013: Two-component wind fields from eye-safe scanning aerosol lidar, Oral presentation 1.3 in Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, 8 January, Austin, TX. VIDEO

Mayor, S. D., 2012: Two-component horizontal wind vectors from the Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL), Presentation A31F-0112 in Weather-Driven Renewable Energy II Posters, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 December. POSTER

Held, A., T. Seith, I. M. Brooks, S. J. Norris, and S. D. Mayor, 2012: Intercomparison of lidar aerosol backscatter and in-situ size distribution measurements, European Aerosol Conference. Presentation number B-WG01S2P05. 2-7 Sept. 2012 in Granada, Spain. PAPER POSTER

Mayor, S. D., 2012: Lidar observations of fine-scale gravity waves in the nocturnal boundary layer above an orchard canopy. Invited Presentation at the NCAR Geophysical Turbulence Program's workshop on Wave-Turbulence Interactions in Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers (WINABL), 23-27 July 2012, Boulder, CO.VIDEO

Mayor, S. D., 2012: Observations of wind and waves with the Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL). NCAR Joint Seminar MMM/EOL, 24 July 2012, Boulder, CO.

Randall, T. N., E. R. Jachens, and S. D. Mayor, 2012: Lidar observations of fine-scale atmospheric gravity waves in the nocturnal boundary layer above an orchard canopy. Poster Presentation at the American Meteorological Societyís 20th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 9-13 July 2012, Boston, MA. PAPER POSTER

Jachens, E. R. and S. D. Mayor, 2012: Lidar observations of fine-scale atmospheric gravity waves in the nocturnal boundary layer above an orchard canopy. Poster Presentation S8P-05 at the 26th International Laser Radar Conference, 25-29 June 2012 in Porto Heli, Greece. PAPER POSTER

Mayor, S. D., 2012: Two-component winds from an eye-safe scanning elastic backscatter lidar. Invited lecture at the Summer School in Remote Sensing for Wind Energy, Boulder, Colorado, 11-15 June 2012.

Mayor, S. D., E. R. Jachens, and T. N. Randall, 2012: Lidar observations of fine-scale gravity waves in the nocturnal boundary layer above an orchard canopy. Poster Presentation P01-15 at the 16th International Symposium for the Advancement of Boundary-Layer Remote Sensing (ISARS), 5-8 June 2012, Boulder, Colorado. PAPER POSTER

Mayor, S. D., 2012: Two-component horizontal motion vectors from the Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL). Oral Presentation S12-2 at the 16th International Symposium for the Advancement of Boundary-Layer Remote Sensing (ISARS), 5-8 June 2012, Boulder, Colorado. PAPER

Mauzey, C. F., J. P. Lowe, and S. D. Mayor, 2012: Real-time wind velocity estimation from aerosol lidar data using graphics hardware, Poster presentation AV10 at the GPU Technology Conference, 14-17 May 2012, San Jose, CA. POSTER

Mayor, S. D., A. Petrova-Mayor, R. W. Wortley, D. S. Hofstadter, S. M. Spuler, J. Ranson, 2011: Gas-fusion mirrors for atmospheric lidar, Optical Society of America's Frontiers in Optics. To be held 16-20 Oct. 2011 in San Jose, CA. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., 2011: Two-component horizontal motion vectors from scanning eye-safe aerosol lidar and cross-correlation. Paper 5.6, 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications. American Meteorological Society, 26 January 2011, Seattle, WA. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., 2010: Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar in 2010: Instrument Status and Two-component wind measurements. 16th International School for Quantum Electronics. Seminar on 20 Sept 2010 in Nesebar, Bulgaria. Proceedings of the SPIE. Vol. 7747, doi:10.1117/12.883454. PAPER LINK

Mayor, S. D., P. DÈrian, P. HÈas, and E. MÈmin, 2010: Two-component horizontal motion vectors from eye-safe aerosol lidar. 19th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 2-6 August 2010, Keystone, CO. Poster Presentation P1.4. POSTER LINK

Mayor, S. D., 2010: Horizontal motion vectors from cross-correlation: First application to eye-safe aerosol lidar data from CHATS. p. 317-320 of Vol. 1 of Proceedings of the 25th ILRC. Poster presentation S2P-08 (Tues. July 6). PAPER POSTER

Dérian, P. and P. Héas and E. Mémin and S. D. Mayor, 2010: Dense motion estimation from eye-safe aerosol lidar data. p. 377-380 of Vol. 1 of Proceedings of the 25th ILRC. Oral presentation S3O-04 (Thurs. July 8). PAPER

Mayor, S. D., 2010: High Pulse-Energy Atmospheric Aerosol Lidar at 1.5-microns Wavelength: Opportunities for Innovation from a Meteorologistís Perspective. Invited Talk. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS) (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC), JThJ2. 20 May 2010, San Jose, CA. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., 2008: Observations of sea-breeze fronts and turbulence near the surface during stable conditions. Oral presentation & paper S03O-01. 24th International Laser Radar Conference, 23-27 June 2008, Boulder, Colorado. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., 2008: Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL) observations at the Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (CHATS). Oral presentation & paper 18A.6 in the American Meteorological Society's 18th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence. 9-13 June 2008, Stockholm, Sweden. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, and B. M. Morley, 2008: Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar. Poster presentation P1.1 in the Symposium on Recent Developments in Atmospheric Applications of Radar and Lidar. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, 21-24 Jan. 2008, New Orleans. POSTER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley, T.W. Horst, E. G. Patton, and D. H. Lenschow, 2007: First comparison of products from the NCAR REAL and ISFF during the CHATS. Oral presentation A41E-06 at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 13 Dec. 2007, San Francisco. ABSTRACT

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley, S. C. Himmelsbach, R. A. Rilling, T. M. Weckwerth, E. G. Patton, and D. H. Lenschow, 2007: Elastic backscatter lidar observations of sea-breeze fronts in Dixon, California. Paper 8.5 in the Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, American Meteorological Society, 10-13 Sept. 2007, San Diego. PAPER TALK

Mayor, S. D., B. M. Morley, S. M. Spuler, S. C. Himmelsbach, D. Flanigan, T. M. Weckwerth, and T. Warner, 2007: Elastic Backscatter lidar observations of a gust front passage over Washington D.C. on 7 May 2004. Paper 9.7 in the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society, 10-13 Sept. 2007, San Diego. PAPER

Spuler, S. M. and S. D. Mayor, 2007: Eye-safe aerosol lidar at 1.5 microns: progress toward a scanning lidar network, SPIE Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring VIII, San Diego, CA, DOI: 10.1117/12.739519 PAPER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley, E. Loew, T. M. Weckwerth, S. DeWekker, D. J. Kirshbaum, 2006: REAL: 1.5 micron wavelength scanning polarization lidar, 23rd International Laser Radar Conference, Nara, Japan, 24-28 July. Vol. 1, Pages 161-164. (Best Poster Award) PAPER POSTER

Spuler, S. M. and S. D. Mayor, 2006: High-energy multipass forward Raman shifter as an eye-safe laser source for lidar, 23rd International Laser Radar Conference, Nara, Japan, 24-28 July., Vol 1, Pages 133-136. PAPER POSTER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, and B. M. Morley, 2006: Three Generations of Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidars, Poster 8.22-P. 7th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling, 11-17 June, Boulder, CO. PAPER POSTER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, and B. M. Morley, 2005: Scanning eye-safe depolarization lidar at 1.54 microns and potential usefulness in bioaerosol plume detection. SPIE Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring IV, Paper 5887-23, San Diego, CA. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, and B. M. Morley, 2004: NCAR's New Raman-shifted Eyesafe Aerosol Lidar (REAL). Paper S20-10 in ESA SP-561, Reviewed and Revised Papers Presented at the 22nd International Laser Radar Conference, Vol. 1, 12-16 July 2004, Matera, Italy. 53-56. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., S. M. Spuler, J. R. Fox, T. D. Rucker, and B. M. Morley, 2004: NCARs New Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar, 16th Symp. on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 9-13 August, Portland, ME, paper number 6.2. PAPER

Mayor, S. D. and D. H. Lenschow, 2002: Coherence of vertical velocity from a zenith pointing Doppler lidar, 15th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 15-19 July, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 104-107. LINK

Tripoli, G. J. and S. D. Mayor, 2000: Numerical simulation of the neutral boundary layer: A comparison of enstrophy conserving with momentum conserving finite difference schemes, 14th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 7-11 Aug., Aspen, CO. 376-379. PAPER

Mayor, S. D., E. W. Eloranta and G. J. Tripoli, 2000: Eddy resolving lidar measurements and numerical simulations of the convective internal boundary layer, 14th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 7-11 Aug., Aspen, CO. 271-274. (First Place Student Poster Presentations) PAPER POSTER

Mayor, S. D., G. J. Tripoli, E. W. Eloranta and B. Hoggatt, 1999: Comparison of Microscale Convection Patterns Seen in Lidar Data and Large-Eddy Simulations, 13th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Jan 1999, Dallas, TX, (Second Place Winner in Student Competition for Best Poster). LINK

Mayor, S. D., E.W. Eloranta, R. Kuehn, P. Ponsardin, 1998: Summary of Volume Imaging Lidar (VIL) Preliminary Results from the Lake-Induced Convection Experiment (Lake-ICE). 19th International Laser Radar Conference, Annapolis, Maryland, 6-10 July. (First Place Student Poster Presentations)

Mayor, S. D., D. H. Levinson, R. L. Schwiesow, C. L. Frush, R. M. Hardesty, R. M. Banta and J. Dunn, 1996: Performance of the NCAR CO₂ Doppler lidar during the Coastal Ocean Probing Experiment, 18th International Laser Radar Conference, 22-26 July, Berlin, Germany. PAPER

Schwiesow, R. L. and S. D. Mayor, 1995: Coherent optical signal processing for a Doppler lidar using a Michelson Interferometer, Coherent Laser Radar, Vol. 19, Optical Society of America Technical Digest Series, 212-215. PAPER

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