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

• Main Authors: Lübken, Franz-Josef, Baumgarten, Gerd, Hildebrand, Jens, Schmidlin, Francis J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: München : European Geopyhsical Union 2016
• Subjects: aerosol; backscatter; comparative study; detection method; DORIS; gravity wave; in situ measurement; lidar; middle atmosphere; observational method; tracking; uncertainty analysis; wind measurement; 550; Alomar; Andøya; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.34657/1246; https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/867

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...