scholarly journals Lidar Temperature Measurements in the Middle Atmosphere.

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
A. HAUCHECORNE
2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Sivakumar ◽  
P. Vishnu Prasanth ◽  
P. Kishore ◽  
H. Bencherif ◽  
P. Keckhut

Abstract. For the first time, climatology of the middle atmosphere thermal structure is presented, based on 14 years of LIDAR and satellite (HALOE, SABER, CHAMP and COSMIC) temperature measurements. The data is collected over a southern sub-tropical site, Reunion Island (20.8° S; 55.5° E), for the height range between 30 and 60 km. The overall monthly mean temperature shows a maximum of 265–270 K at the stratopause height region from ~44–52 km and peaks during the months of March and November. Furthermore, the temperature profiles are compared with different satellite datasets (HALOE, CHAMP, COSMIC and SABER) and the results are found to be in reasonable agreement with each other, although a relative difference in temperature of ± 5 to 6 K is noticed. In comparison, LIDAR shows higher/lower temperatures for the lower mesosphere/upper stratosphere height region. The differences in temperature measured by the LIDAR and satellite measurements are analogous with previous results available elsewhere. Long-term temperature measurements are used to further study seasonal oscillations, especially annual, semi-annual and quasi-biennial oscillations. In comparison with SAO, the measured spectral amplitudes of AO shows dominant amplitudes in both the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere height regions. Using LIDAR and the other satellite measurements, the quasi-biennial oscillation was found to be approximately 26 months. The spectral amplitudes are comparable to the results reported earlier by other researchers.


2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 755-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brentha Thurairajah ◽  
Richard L. Collins ◽  
Kohei Mizutani

2018 ◽  
Vol 144 (712) ◽  
pp. 633-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedikt Ehard ◽  
Sylvie Malardel ◽  
Andreas Dörnbrack ◽  
Bernd Kaifler ◽  
Natalie Kaifler ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Orbe ◽  
David Rind ◽  
Jeffrey Jonas ◽  
Larissa Nazarenko ◽  
Greg Faluvegi ◽  
...  

1987 ◽  
Vol 48 (C7) ◽  
pp. C7-757-C7-760
Author(s):  
P. SPIBERG ◽  
C. CAHEN ◽  
P. DESCHAMPS

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