First year of Rayleigh lidar measurements of middle atmosphere temperatures above Davis, Antarctica

• Published in: Advances in Space Research
• Main Authors: Klekociuk, A., Lambert, M., Vincent, R., Dowdy, A.
• Other Authors: Clemesha, B., Swenson, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science Bv 2003
• Subjects: Antarctic; Midwinter; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18084; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00421-6

We report,the first high spatial resolution measurements of the annual variation of temperatures in the stratosphere and lower mesosphere obtained using lidar from a site near the Antarctic Circle. The observations were made using a zenith-oriented Rayleigh backscatter lidar on 77 days between Febru...