A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)

Autor: B. Kaifler, D. Rempel, P. Roßi, C. Büdenbender, N. Kaifler, V. Baturkin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol 13, Pp 5681-5695 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1867-1381
1867-8548
DOI: 10.5194/amt-13-5681-2020
Popis: The Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE) was the first high-power lidar flown and operated successfully on board a balloon platform. As part of the PMC Turbo payload, the instrument acquired high-resolution backscatter profiles of polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) from an altitude of ∼ 38 km during its maiden ∼ 6 d flight from Esrange, Sweden, to northern Canada in July 2018. We describe the BOLIDE instrument and its development and report on the predicted and actual in-flight performance. Although the instrument suffered from excessively high background noise, we were able to detect PMCs with a volume backscatter coefficient as low as 0.6×10-10 m−1 sr−1 at a vertical resolution of 100 m and a time resolution of 30 s.
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