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Mid-Latiude Rayleigh-Mie-Raman Lidar For Observations From 15 To 120 Km, Vincent B. Wickwar, Leda Sox, Joshua P. Herron, Matthew T. Emerick
Mid-Latiude Rayleigh-Mie-Raman Lidar For Observations From 15 To 120 Km, Vincent B. Wickwar, Leda Sox, Joshua P. Herron, Matthew T. Emerick
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Rayleigh lidar opened a portion of the atmosphere, from 30 to 90 km, to ground-based observations. Rayleigh-scatter observations were made at the Atmospheric Lidar Observatory (ALO) at Utah State University (USU) from 1993–2004 between 45 and 90 km. The lidar consisted of a 0.44-m diameter mirror, a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser opera'ng at 532-nm at 30- Hz at either 18- or 24-W, giving power- aperture products (PAPs) of 2.7- or 3.6- Wm2, respec'vely, and one detector channel. An example of what was accomplished with this system is shown as part of Fig. 1. The temperature climatology was based on ~5000 hours …
Mesospheric Density Climatologies Determined At Midlatitudes Using Rayleigh Lidar, David L. Barton, Vincent B. Wickwar, Leda Sox, Joshua P. Herron
Mesospheric Density Climatologies Determined At Midlatitudes Using Rayleigh Lidar, David L. Barton, Vincent B. Wickwar, Leda Sox, Joshua P. Herron
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The original Rayleigh-scatter lidar that operated at the Atmospheric Lidar Observatory (ALO; 41.7°N, 111.8°W) in the Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS) on the campus of Utah State University (USU), collected 11 years of data between 1993 and 2004. From Rayleigh lidar photon-count returns, relative densities throughout the mesosphere, from 45 to 90 km, were determined. Using these relative densities, three climatologies are derived, each using a different density normalization method at 45 km: the first method normalized the relative densities to a constant; the second normalized them to the NRLMSISe00 empirical model; and the third normalized them to …
Wavelength Control For A Potassium Resonance Lidar, Everett E. A., Vincent B. Wickwar
Wavelength Control For A Potassium Resonance Lidar, Everett E. A., Vincent B. Wickwar
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An important ground-based way to measure temperatures and winds in the transition region between the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere (80 to 105 km) is with a resonance-scatter lidar. An alexandrite laser, with a wavelength in the near infrared at 770 nm, is being added to the Atmospheric Lidar Observatory to make this type of observation of potassium. These observations will complement those that have been made for many years with the green Rayleigh-scatter lidar. For these resonance-scatter observations it is necessary to accurately and precisely control the laser wavelength. The intent is to carefully step across the 4 pm …
Results From The Middle Atmosphere With The Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar At Usu’S Atmospheric Lidar Observatory, Vincent B. Wickwar, Joshua P. Herron, Troy A. Wynn, Eric M. Lundell
Results From The Middle Atmosphere With The Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar At Usu’S Atmospheric Lidar Observatory, Vincent B. Wickwar, Joshua P. Herron, Troy A. Wynn, Eric M. Lundell
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Mesospheric Mid-Latitude Density Climatology Above Utah State University, Eric M. Lundell, Vincent B. Wickwar
Mesospheric Mid-Latitude Density Climatology Above Utah State University, Eric M. Lundell, Vincent B. Wickwar
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Lidars have been used extensively to derive temperatures, but not absolute densities, in the mesospheric region of the atmosphere. We used observations since 1993 with the Rayleigh- scatter lidar at the Atmospheric Lidar Observatory (ALO) at Utah State University (41.7oN, 111.8oW) to create an absolute density climatology between 45 and ~95 km. The observations provide profiles of relative density to which an absolute scale is attached by normalizing the profiles at 45 km to the densities in the MSISe00 empirical model. We examine the density variations on several time scales—during the climatological year, from year to year, and over several …