Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere
by lidar and rocket-borne techniques

Lübken, Franz-Josef; Baumgarten, Gerd; Hildebrand, Jens; Schmidlin, Francis J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3911-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3911-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3911-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

Research article

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23 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 23 Aug 2016

Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques

Franz-Josef Lübken, Gerd Baumgarten, Jens Hildebrand, and Francis J. Schmidlin

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Final revised paper (published on 23 Aug 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 05 Apr 2016)

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

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RC1: 'Reviewer comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Apr 2016
RC2: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Jun 2016
AC1: 'Response to the reviewer's comments', Franz-Josef Lübken, 12 Jul 2016

Short summary

Wind measurements in the middle atmosphere (MA) are crucial to our understanding of atmospheric processes. We have recently developed a new laser-based method to measure winds called DoRIS (Doppler Rayleigh Iodine Spectrometer) which is the only technique to monitor winds in the middle atmosphere quasi-continuously. We compare our measurements with rocket-borne measurements and find excellent agreement above 30 km. DoRIS can now be considered as a validated method to measure winds in the MA.