Temperature profiles combined from lidar and airglow measurements

Trickl, Thomas; Vogelmann, Hannes; Bittner, Michael; Nedoluha, Gerald; Schmidt, Carsten; Steinbrecht, Wolfgang; Wüst, Sabine

doi:10.5194/amt-18-7477-2025

Articles | Volume 18, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7477-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7477-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 23

Research article

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08 Dec 2025

Research article |

| 08 Dec 2025

Temperature profiles combined from lidar and airglow measurements

Thomas Trickl, Hannes Vogelmann, Michael Bittner, Gerald Nedoluha, Carsten Schmidt, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, and Sabine Wüst

Data sets

OH airglow temperatures above the Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus (UFS) at one minute resolution C. Schmidt et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15267440

Short summary

A powerful lidar system has been installed at the high-altitude observatory Schneefernerhaus (2575 m) to allow for atmospheric temperature measurements up to more than 80 km within just one hour. The temperature profiles are calibrated by values obtained from chemiluminscence of the hydroxyl radical around 86 km. The temperature profiles are successfully compared with satellite and lidar data.