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Rayleigh-Lidar Determinations Of The Vertical Wavelength Of Mesospheric Gravity Wave, Joe R. Slansky, Durga N. Kafle, Vincent B. Wickwar
Rayleigh-Lidar Determinations Of The Vertical Wavelength Of Mesospheric Gravity Wave, Joe R. Slansky, Durga N. Kafle, Vincent B. Wickwar
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Atmospheric structures have been observed in the Rayleigh lidar data acquired between 1993 and 2004 at Utah State University (USU). The observations pertain to the density and temperature in the mesosphere between 45 and 90 km altitude. The structures referred to arise from monochromatic Atmospheric Gravity Waves (AGWs). Previous analysis of these data have searched for and found a spectrum with a peak in the vertical wavelength 12–16 km. It has been suggested by other researchers using other types of data that there may be another peak in the spectrum at shorter wavelengths. For this study the lidar data were …