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Temperature measurements made with a combined Rayleigh-Mie and Raman lidar
- Source :
- Applied Optics. August 20, 1997, Vol. 36 Issue 24, p5987, 9 p.
- Publication Year :
- 1997
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Abstract
- The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center stratospheric ozone lidar system has the capability of collecting both Rayleigh-Mie and Raman backscatter data simultaneously at a number of wavelengths. Here we report on an improved method by which temperature can be derived from a combination of the RayleighMie return at 351-nm lidar channels and the Raman nitrogen return at 382-nm lidar channels. We also examine some common techniques by which temperatures are retrieved from lidar data. Finally, we show results obtained in 1995 during two Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change intercomparison campaigns at Lauder, New Zealand and Mauna Loa, Hawaii. Key words: Lidar; Rayleigh, Mie, and Raman backscatter; tropospheric, stratospheric, and mesospheric temperature profiles.
Details
- ISSN :
- 1559128X
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 24
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Applied Optics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.19956630