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Research article
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02 Mar 2021
Research article |
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| 02 Mar 2021
A Compact Rayleigh Autonomous Lidar (CORAL) for the middle atmosphere
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Natalie Kaifler
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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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.
This paper describes the Compact Rayleigh Autonomous Lidar (CORAL), which is the first lidar...
