Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1087-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1087-2023
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03 Mar 2023
Research article |  | 03 Mar 2023

Airborne coherent wind lidar measurements of the momentum flux profile from orographically induced gravity waves

Benjamin Witschas, Sonja Gisinger, Stephan Rahm, Andreas Dörnbrack, David C. Fritts, and Markus Rapp

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In this paper, a novel scan technique is applied to an airborne coherent Doppler wind lidar, enabling us to measure the vertical wind speed and the horizontal wind speed along flight direction simultaneously with a horizontal resolution of about 800 m and a vertical resolution of 100 m. The performed observations are valuable for gravity wave characterization as they allow us to calculate the leg-averaged momentum flux profile and, with that, the propagation direction of excited gravity waves.