Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques
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...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00011625 2023-05-15T13:25:43+02:00 Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques Lübken, Franz-Josef Baumgarten, Gerd Hildebrand, Jens Schmidlin, Francis J. 2016-08 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3911-2016 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00011625 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00011582/amt-9-3911-2016.pdf https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/9/3911/2016/amt-9-3911-2016.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications Atmospheric Measurement Techniques -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2505596 -- http://www.atmospheric-measurement-techniques.net/ -- 1867-8548 https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3911-2016 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00011625 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00011582/amt-9-3911-2016.pdf https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/9/3911/2016/amt-9-3911-2016.pdf uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2016 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3911-2016 2022-02-08T22:56:25Z 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 place from the Andøya Space Center (ASC), very close to the ALOMAR observatory (Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research) at 69° N. DoRIS is part of a steerable twin lidar system installed at ALOMAR. The observations were made simultaneously and with a horizontal distance between the two lidar beams and the starute trajectories of typically 0–40 km only. DoRIS measured winds from 14 March 2015, 17:00 UTC, to 15 March 2015, 11:30 UTC. A total of eight starute flights were launched successfully from 14 March, 19:00 UTC, to 15 March, 00:19 UTC. In general there is excellent agreement between DoRIS and the in situ measurements, considering the combined range of uncertainties. This concerns not only the general height structures of zonal and meridional winds and their temporal developments, but also some wavy structures. Considering the comparison between all starute flights and all DoRIS observations in a time period of ±20 min around each individual starute flight, we arrive at mean differences of typically ±5–10 m s−1 for both wind components. Part of the remaining differences are most likely due to the detection of different wave fronts of gravity waves. There is no systematic difference between DoRIS and the in situ observations above 30 km. Below ∼ 30 km, winds from DoRIS are systematically too large by up to 10–20 m s−1, which can be explained by the presence of aerosols. This is proven by deriving the backscatter ratios at two different wavelengths. These ratios are larger than unity, which is an indication of the presence of aerosols. Article in Journal/Newspaper Andøya Arctic Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Alomar ENVELOPE(-67.083,-67.083,-68.133,-68.133) Andøya ENVELOPE(13.982,13.982,68.185,68.185) Arctic Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 9 8 3911 3919 |
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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 place from the Andøya Space Center (ASC), very close to the ALOMAR observatory (Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research) at 69° N. DoRIS is part of a steerable twin lidar system installed at ALOMAR. The observations were made simultaneously and with a horizontal distance between the two lidar beams and the starute trajectories of typically 0–40 km only. DoRIS measured winds from 14 March 2015, 17:00 UTC, to 15 March 2015, 11:30 UTC. A total of eight starute flights were launched successfully from 14 March, 19:00 UTC, to 15 March, 00:19 UTC. In general there is excellent agreement between DoRIS and the in situ measurements, considering the combined range of uncertainties. This concerns not only the general height structures of zonal and meridional winds and their temporal developments, but also some wavy structures. Considering the comparison between all starute flights and all DoRIS observations in a time period of ±20 min around each individual starute flight, we arrive at mean differences of typically ±5–10 m s−1 for both wind components. Part of the remaining differences are most likely due to the detection of different wave fronts of gravity waves. There is no systematic difference between DoRIS and the in situ observations above 30 km. Below ∼ 30 km, winds from DoRIS are systematically too large by up to 10–20 m s−1, which can be explained by the presence of aerosols. This is proven by deriving the backscatter ratios at two different wavelengths. These ratios are larger than unity, which is an indication of the presence of aerosols. |
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Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques |
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Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques |
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Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques |
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Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques |
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Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques |
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