Lidar Probing of a Mixture of Hydrogen Sulfide and Methane Molecules in the Atmosphere from a Flying Platform

Abstract

The results of numerical solution of the lidar equation for the Raman scattering on the molecules of a gas mixture of hydrogen sulfide and methane in the 180° direction when probing the molecules of hydrogen sulfide and methane in the atmospheric boundary layer with concentrations in the range of 10¹⁰–10¹⁶ cm^–3 from a flying platform at altitudes of up to 500 m in the synchronous photon counting mode are presented. It is shown that concentrations of the studied hydrogen sulfide and methane molecules below the level of the maximum permissible concentration (MPC) for such a version of the Raman scattering lidar can be recorded within a measurement time of 10 s when probing at a laser radiation wavelength of 405 nm and a platform flight height in the range of up to 500 m.