The airglow layer emission altitude cannot be determined unambiguously from temperature comparison with lidars

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Author: T. Dunker
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: Physics; QC1-999; Chemistry; QD1-999; Alomar; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6691-2018; https://doaj.org/article/3f430df8218e47e887c427826d5b1370

I investigate the nightly mean emission height and width of the OH* (3–1) layer by comparing nightly mean temperatures measured by the ground-based spectrometer GRIPS 9 and the Na lidar at ALOMAR. The data set contains 42 coincident measurements taken between November 2010 and February 2014, when GR...