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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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

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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
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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.