Abstract

During August of 1995, a number of scientific groups gathered at Mauna Loa Observatory, on the island of Hawaii, to participate in an ozone lidar instrument validation campaign. The two ozone lidars which participated, also are capable of retrieving upper atmosphere temperature profiles from the data collected and so it was decided to use this opportunity to compare the temperature capabilities of the instruments. NOAA has for many years operated a Rayleigh lidar at the site. This had just recently been upgraded to a Nd-YAG lidar. The Goddard Space Flight Center also shipped a new Temperature and Aerosol Lidar to the site for this campaign.

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