Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1715-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1715-2021
Research article
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02 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 02 Mar 2021

A Compact Rayleigh Autonomous Lidar (CORAL) for the middle atmosphere

Bernd Kaifler and Natalie Kaifler

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The HALO Database, Mission: SOUTHWAVE German Aerospace Center https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/111

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This paper describes the Compact Rayleigh Autonomous Lidar (CORAL), which is the first lidar instrument to make fully automatic high-resolution measurements of atmospheric density and temperature between 15 and 90 km altitude. CORAL achieves a much larger measurement cadence than conventional lidars and thus facilitates studies of rare atmospheric phenomena.