Surname: Duck
First Name: Thomas J.
Status= other
Institution: MIT Haystack Observatory
E-mail: tomduck@haystack.mit.edu
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Title: 
The Firepond Lidar at MIT Haystack Observatory
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Authors: 
Thomas J. Duck, Dwight P. Sipler, Joseph E. Salah,
John W. Meriwether
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Abstract: 
A new lidar for atmospheric research is operational
at the Firepond Optical Facility of MIT Haystack 
Observatory.  The lidar currently measures 
temperatures between 25 and 95 km in altitude at night 
and up to 65km during the day.  We are enhancing the 
lidar to extend the daytime measurements to higher 
altitudes and also to allow spectroscopic measurements 
of winds and temperatures.  The lidar will be used for 
studies of mesospheric temperature inversions and gravity 
wave / mean flow interactions.


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Discipline Category: Instruments