2010 Workshop:lidar ground based instruments
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Midlatitude Stratosphere, Mesosphere and lower Thermosphere (SMLT) science enabled by lidar and other ground-based observations
Location, Date/Time and Duration
2 hours
Conveners
Titus Yuan
Mike Taylor
Joe She
Workshop Categories
Altitudes: MLT - Latitudes: mid-latitude - Inst/Model: optical - Other:
Format of the Workshop
Short Presentations
Estimated attendance
40
Conflicts with other workshops or Requested Specific Days
Avoid conficts with other lidar workshop. This session could be conbined with the 2-hour Andes Lidar Observatory (ALO) Workshop and transfer into a 4-hour workshop.
Special technology requests
None other than computer projector
Description
Considerable middle atmospheric science has been enabled by lidar and other ground based observations at midlatitude in the past decade. The purposes of this workshop are: 1.) Summarize the achievements at this juncture and to plan for future observations with cluster instrumentations at midlatitude sites. 2.) As one of the lidars in the Consortium of Resonance and Rayleigh lidars, the Colorado State University Na Lidar has been observing mesopause region temperature and winds for about two decades, and will be relocated to Utah State University (USU) to continue its midlatitude observations in April 2010. Thus, part of the workshop will highlight science enabled by this lidar and present its future observational plan and potentials at USU when collaborating with the university’s other ground-based passive and active instrumentations, for example the Gravity waves, Noctilucent Clouds and the ionosphere sporadic layers (Na layers and E-layer) studies that could be pushed to another higher level due to the arrival of the Na lidar.
Correlative observations in both stratosphere and mesosphere by optical imagers and Rayleigh lidar as well as meteor, MF radars are often necessary to reveal the integrated dynamics and chemistry in the middle atmosphere. We therefore solicit relevant contributions on ground-based observations that could enhance our understanding of midlatitude middle atmosphere.
Speakers
Selected speakers at this workshop are:
- C. Y. She, Twenty years of Na lidar at CSU
- T. Yuan, Latest progress on the reinstallation of Na lidar at USU and future highlights.
- Gordon Shepherd, Longitudinal variations of WINDII airglow emission rates and wind compared with those from the TIME-GCM
- Steve Smith, latest OH temperature results from Millstone
- Tao Li, Inter-annual variability of the middle atmospheric temperature and wind, Using Rayleigh lidar datasets from 20N to 50N, and one MF radar dataset at Hawaii to study the interannual variability (QBO, ENSO, solar cycle, and trend) in the middle atmosphere temperature and wind.
- Andrew Gerrard, NJIT lidar system
- J. Yue, Seasonal and local time variability of ripples from airglow imager observations in US and Japan
- N. J. Mitchell, Winds, waves and tides in the MLT observed by the new Bear Lake meteor radar (42N, 111W).
- M. Taylor, Mid-latitude Noctilucent clouds and gravity waves at Bear Lake Observatory
Workshop Summary
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