A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)

Kaifler, Bernd; Rempel, Dimitry; Roßi, Philipp; Büdenbender, Christian; Kaifler, Natalie; Baturkin, Volodymyr

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5681-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5681-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5681-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

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26 Oct 2020

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A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)

Bernd Kaifler, Dimitry Rempel, Philipp Roßi, Christian Büdenbender, Natalie Kaifler, and Volodymyr Baturkin

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to referee comment', Bernd Kaifler, 02 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Reviewer Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to reviewer comment', Bernd Kaifler, 08 Aug 2020
RC3: 'Review of the paper "A technical description of the Ballon Lidar Experiment BOLIDE"', Anonymous Referee #3, 29 Jun 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to reviewer comment', Bernd Kaifler, 08 Aug 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Bernd Kaifler on behalf of the Authors (08 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Aug 2020) by Jorge Luis Chau

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (20 Aug 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (30 Aug 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (02 Sep 2020) by Jorge Luis Chau

AR by Bernd Kaifler on behalf of the Authors (02 Sep 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 Sep 2020) by Jorge Luis Chau

AR by Bernd Kaifler on behalf of the Authors (14 Sep 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

The Balloon Lidar Experiment was the first lidar dedicated to measurements in the mesosphere flown on a balloon. During a 6 d flight, it made high-resolution observations of polar mesospheric clouds which form at high latitudes during summer at ~ 83 km altitude and are the highest clouds in Earth's atmosphere. We describe the instrument and assess its performance. We could detect fainter clouds with higher resolution than what is possible with ground-based instruments.