Introduction to lidar / Ulla Wandinger -- Polarization in lidar / Kenneth Sassen -- Lidar and multiple scattering / Luc R. Bissonnette -- Lidar and atmospheric aerosol particles / Albert Ansmann and Detlef Müller -- High spectral resolution lidar / Edwin E. Eloranta -- Visibility and cloud lidar / Christian Werner [and others] -- Differential-absorption lidar for ozone and industrial emissions / Gary G. Gimmestad -- Differential-absorption lidar for water vapor and temperature profiling / Jens Bösenberg -- Raman lidar / Ulla Wandinger -- Temperature measurements with lidar / Andreas Behrendt -- Resonance scattering lidar / Makoto Abo -- Doppler wind lidar / Christian Werner -- Airborne and spaceborne lidar / M. Patrick McCormick -- DIAL revisited : BELINDA and white-light femtosecond lidar / Felix A. Theopold, Jean-Pierre Wolf, and Ludger Wöste