The
author wishes to convey his deep appreciation to Dr. Graham Feingold of NOAA's
Environmental Technology Laboratory (NOAA/ETL) for providing the initial
motivation for this work, some data from the ARM/SGP field site and much needed
guidance on the analysis and interpretation of lidar data. Many thanks to Dr.
Irina Sokolik for providing motivation and high quality lectures about remote
sensing as part of her Remote Sensing class in the PAOS program. Some of the
data used in the present study have been obtained from the archives of the
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program for the Southern Great Plains
site (see www.arm.gov).
