Atmospheric measurements using the LAMP lidar during the LADIMAS Campaign
Document ID: 76
Philbrick, C. Russell
Lysak, Jr., Daniel B.
Stevens, Timothy D.
Haris, Paul A. T.
Rau, Yi -Chung
The Pennsylvania State University
The Graduate School
Department of Electrical Engineering
Presented: Sixteenth International Laser Radar Conference
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 20-24, 1992
Abstract
The results of the LAtitudinal Dlstribution of Middle Atmosphere Structure (LADIMAS) experiment have provided a unique data set to improve our understanding of the middle atmosphere. The project included ship-board and rocket range coordinated measurements between 70N to 65S to study the structure, dynamics and chemistry of the atmosphere. Results on important dynamical processes, such as gravity waves, tidal components, as well as the formation of the layers of meteoric ion and neutral species, have been obtained with lidar, digisonde, microwave radiometer, and spectrometers. The cooperative study of the atmosphere was undertaken by researchers from several laboratories, including Penn State University, University Bonn, University Wuppertal, Lowell University, and others. Several of the parameters studied have never been measured before over such a wide range of latitudes. Instruments were assembled aboard the German research vessel RV POLARSTERN while this vessel was sailing from the Arctic to the Antarctic seas between October 8, 1991 and January 2, 1992. This paper presents an introduction to the data gathered by the PSU investigation with the LAMP lidar.
| Citation: | "Atmospheric measurements using the LAMP lidar during the LADIMAS Campaign", Philbrick, C. R., D. B. Lysak, Jr., T. D. Stevens, P. A. T. Haris, Y. -C. Rau, Sixteenth International Laser Radar Conference (NASA-CP-3158B-Pt-2), Vol. 3158 Part 2, NASA Conference Publications, 1992, pp. 651 - 654 |