Role of excited atoms in Lidar measurements of the middle and upper atmosphere

The paper presents the results of a lidar study of the atmosphere in the altitude region of 25-400 km, obtained at the lidar station of Kamchatka in 2008-2016. The development of methods for lidar measurements and signal processing is discussed. The method that takes into account the aftereffects of...

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Published in:E3S Web of Conferences
Main Authors: Bychkov Vasily, Perezhogin Andrey, Seredkin Il’ya
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
French
Published: EDP Sciences 2017
Subjects:
atmosphere
lidar
stratosphere
mesosphere
scattering
sounding
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Kamchatka
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20172001002
https://doaj.org/article/7ba8a559966849b6af61d154680fd0a1
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Summary:The paper presents the results of a lidar study of the atmosphere in the altitude region of 25-400 km, obtained at the lidar station of Kamchatka in 2008-2016. The development of methods for lidar measurements and signal processing is discussed. The method that takes into account the aftereffects of photoelectric multipliers and the technique to measure the background signal is described. These tools allow the authors to include the mesosphere and the upper atmosphere into the altitude region investigated by the lidar method. The results of the investigation of the backscattering lidar signal from the altitude region of 100-400 km caused by the resonance scattering on exited components of upper atmosphere are discussed.

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