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

Kaifler, Bernd; Kaifler, Natalie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1715-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1715-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1715-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 2

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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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

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

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Nov 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Bernd Kaifler, 09 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Nov 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Bernd Kaifler, 15 Dec 2020

Peer-review completion

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

AR by Bernd Kaifler on behalf of the Authors (14 Jan 2021) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Jan 2021) by Gerd Baumgarten

RR by Philippe Keckhut (18 Jan 2021)

ED: Publish as is (18 Jan 2021) by Gerd Baumgarten

AR by Bernd Kaifler on behalf of the Authors (19 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

Post-review adjustments

AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval

AA by Bernd Kaifler on behalf of the Authors (25 Feb 2021) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (25 Feb 2021) by Gerd Baumgarten

Short summary

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.