The NJIT-UACNJ-PSU Collaborative: A spatially scanning middle atmospheric lidar system in northwest New Jersey
Abstract
We present an overview of a new middle and upper atmospheric observatory located in northwest New Jersey; focusing specifically on the 355-nm lidar system deployed in summer-early fall 2008. The lidar system uses a 1.2 W 355-nm laser system attached to a 1.2 meter, fully steerable optical telescope to measure a host of lower and middle atmospheric parameters, including a) lower and middle atmospheric gravity wave structures, b) lower atmospheric cloud/aerosol formations, and c) frontal systems as progenitors of gravity waves. These topics of interest are studied using 4D volume visualization methods often used in tropospheric Doppler radar systems.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008AGUFMSA41A1556N
- Keywords:
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- 3332 Mesospheric dynamics;
- 3334 Middle atmosphere dynamics (0341;
- 0342);
- 3360 Remote sensing;
- 3384 Acoustic-gravity waves