Abstract

The 1981 flight test program of the MSFC lidar wind measuring system (Bilbro, et al., 1984) confirmed the soundness of the basic idea, but showed areas in which system improvements could greatly increase the utility of the apparatus. In addition, analysis of the wind data indicated that some of the serious deficiencies could be overcome with a modest amount of revision to the system. The system improvements will be summarized below, along with a description of the experiments that were performed in the 1984 flights and some preliminary results of those flights.

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