Publications:

 

Sharma, S. K., J. N. Porter, A. K. Misra, H. W. Hubble, and P. Menon, Portable stand- off Raman and Mie-Rayleigh lidar for cloud, aerosols, and chemical monitoring, Proceedings SPIE, #5154, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environment Monitoring IV, edited by Upendra N. Singh, pp. 1-14 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2003).

 

Porter, J.N., B. Lienert, S. K. Sharma, and H. W. Hubble, A Small Portable Mie-Rayleigh Lidar System to Measure Aerosol Optical and Spatial Properties, J. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Tech., 19, 11, 1873-1877, 2002.

 

Porter, J.N., K. Horton, P. Mouginis-Mark, B. Lienert, E. Lau, S.K. Sharma, J. Sutton, T. Elias, and C. Oppenheimer, Lidar and Sun Photometer  Measurements of The Hawaii Pu’u O’o Volcano Plume: Estimates of SO2 and Aerosol Flux Rates and SO2 Lifetimes, Geo. Res. Let., 29,  2002.

 

J. N. Porter, S. K. Sharma, and B. R. Lienert, Obtaining Calibrated Marine Aerosol Extinction Measurements Using Horizontal Lidar Measurements, Differential Lidar-Target Measurements and A Polar Nephelometer, SPIE Meeting, Sendai, Japan, 2000.

 

Porter, J.N., S.K. Sharma, B. R. Lienert, E. Lau and K. Horton, Vertical and Horizontal Aerosol Scattering Fields Over Bellows Beach, Oahu During the SEAS Experiment,  J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Tech., 20, 1375-1387, 2002.

 

A. Clarke, V. Kapustin, S. Howell, K. Moore and B. Lienert, Coastal Influences on Marine Aerosol Production from Breaking Waves: Implications for the Shoreline Environment Aerosol Study,  J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Tech., 20, 1362-1374, 2003.

  

Lienert, B. R., J. N. Porter and S. K. Sharma, Aerosol Size Distributions from Genetic Inversion of Polar Nephelometer Data,  J. Atmospheric and Oceanic, 20, 1403-1410, 2002.

 

Lienert, B.R., J.N. Porter, and S.K. Sharma, A 50 MHz Logarithmic Amplifier for use in Lidar Measurements, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech, 19, 654-657, 2002, 2001.

 

Lienert, B.R., J.N. Porter, and S.K. Sharma, Repetitive Genetic Inversion of Optical Extinction Data , Applied Optics , 40, 3476-3482, 2001.

 

J. N. Porter, B. Lienert, and S. K. Sharma, Using Horizontal and Slant Lidar Measurements To Obtain Aerosol Scattering Coefficients From A Coastal Lidar In Hawaii, J. Atmos. Oceanic Techn., 17, 1445-1454, 2000.

 

Clarke, A., V. Kapustin, S. Sharma, B. Lienert, J. Porter, K. Moore, D. Covert, T. Anderson, S. Magonis, E. Saltzman, S. Howell, and N. Ahlquist. New Instruments and Tools for Measurement of Marine Aerosol Microphysics, Chemistry, and Optical Effects. Ocean Optics, Monaco, pp. 4, 2000.

J. Porter, B. Lienert, S. K. Sharma, Using Horizontal and Slant Lidar Measurements to Obtain Aerosol Scattering Coefficients from a Coastal Lidar in Hawaii, Journal of atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 17, 1445-1454, 2000.

Lienert, B.R., J.N. Porter and S.K. Sharma, Real time analysis and display of scanning lidar scattering data, Marine Geodesy, 22, p259-265, 1999.

R. J. Burke, C. E. Helsley, S. K. Sharma, C. Kumar N. Patel, John M. J. Madey, High performance FEL for the proposed PEARL research platform, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Phys. Research, B 144, 99-106, 1998.

Sharma, S. K., B. R. Lienert, J. N. Porter and A. D. Clarke, Scanning lidar imaging of marine aerosol fields generated by breaking waves,in U. N. Singh, S. Ismail, and G. K. Schwemmer (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Laser Radar Conference, July 6-10, 1998, Annapolis, Maryland, Part 2, pp. 673-676, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA, 1998.

Sharma, S. K., C. E. Helsley, R. J. Burke, D. M. Tratt, R. L. Collins and C. K. N. Patel, Ship-based free electron laser (FEL) lidar for oceanic and atmospheric research. Recent Advances in Marine Science and Technology ’96, pp.191-204  PACON International, Honolulu, USA, 1997.

Gauldie, R. W., C. E. Helsley and S. K. Sharma, Casting new light on fisheries monitoring problems: The LIDAR. Canadian J. Fisheries & Aquat. Sci., 53, 1459-1468, 1996.

 

Reports:

1999 ONR Annual Report

2000 ONR Annual Report

2001 ONR Annual Report

Observations of Asian Pollution:

March 20, 2001 Dust Observations over Hawaii