Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques

• Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
• Main Authors: F.-J. Lübken, G. Baumgarten, J. Hildebrand, F. J. Schmidlin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2016
• Subjects: Environmental engineering; TA170-171; Earthwork. Foundations; TA715-787; Arctic; Andøya; Alomar
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3911-2016; https://doaj.org/article/109e2a34090f49f2b71651cf56a4fb75

We present the first comparison of a new lidar technique to measure winds in the middle atmosphere, called DoRIS (Doppler Rayleigh Iodine Spectrometer), with a rocket-borne in situ method, which relies on measuring the horizontal drift of a target (“starute”) by a tracking radar. The launches took p...