A frequency-agile lidar for simultaneous measurement of temperature and radial wind in the mesopause region without sodium density contamination

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OSTI ID:492293

White, M; Golias, D; Krueger, D A; She, C Y ^[1]

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1. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States). Physics Dept.

With early and ongoing climatological surveys established, continuing observations of the mesopause region over Fort Collins, Colorado are discussed, emphasizing the modification of Colorado State University`s two frequency lidar for simultaneous measurement of temperature vis Doppler Broadening and radial wind via Doppler shift. The application of a frequency-agile, tandem acousto-optical modulator system for three-frequency temperature/wind measurements free of contamination from atmospheric Na density fluctuations, as well as frequency characterization of this new apparatus, and future applications are considered.

• OSTI ID: 492293
• Report Number(s): CONF-960848-; ISBN 0-8194-2221-5; TRN: IM9730%%172
• Resource Relation: Conference: Denver `96: 1. conference on space processing of materials, at SPIE International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) annual international symposium on optical science, engineering, and instrumentation, Denver, CO (United States), 4-9 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Application of lidar to current atmospheric topics; Sedlacek, A.J. III [ed.] [Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Advanced Technology]; PB: 270 p.; SPIE proceedings series, Volume 2833
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
OPTICAL RADAR
AMBIENT TEMPERATURE
ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
MESOSPHERE
DESIGN
COLORADO
REMOTE SENSING
WIND
FREQUENCY MODULATION
EXPERIMENTAL DATA