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September 2011: Article discussing THOR measurements of cloud structure is accepted for publication
May 2009: Conference paper on initial snow demonstration published
December 2007: Initial demonstration of halo measurements in snow
December 2007: Article on potential capabilities of THOR snow and sea ice measurements published
June 2005: Article on THOR cloud measurements published
February 2005: THOR web site unveiled
September 2003: AASI campaign
March 2002: THOR Validation campaign over the DOE ARM site in Oklahoma
1999-2000: THOR instrument built
1998-1999: THOR instrument designed
1997: Laboratory experiments of diffuse halos in artificial clouds
1996: Demonstration of feasibility: offbeam lidar signal detected by tilting the transmitter of a ground based lidar so that the receiver measured offbeam signals.
Setup of 1997 laboratory experiments