Description

The USU Na lidar has been upgraded to be able to measure temperature and winds in the lower thermosphere up to ~ 115 km routinely. The new capability, coupled with the existing nightglow instruments at USU, enables the investigation of the extreme large wind and shears in this region and their correlation to the atmospheric gravity waves activities in the upper mesosphere.

Author ORCID Identifier

Titus Yuan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3008-0171

Document Type

Dataset

DCMI Type

Dataset

File Format

.pdf, .zip, .txt

Publication Date

8-17-2023

Funder

NSF

Publisher

Utah State University

Award Number

NSF AGS1954308

Award Title

EAGER: Exploratory Measurements of Large Winds and Shears in the Lower Thermosphere and Their Variability Using an Enhanced Sodium Lidar

Methodology

The lidar hardware is set up so that the lidar signals were binned with 150 m in line of sight direction and saved every minute. Different temporal and spatial resolutions can be applied later during data processing, when the temperature and wind information in the upper atmosphere are derived. For this study, the temporal and spatial (vertical) resolutions are 1-hour and 4-km respectively.

Start Date

12-2019

End Date

11-2022

Location

41.7 degree north 111.8 degree west at Utah State University

Language

eng

Code Lists

see README

Disciplines

Atmospheric Sciences | Physics

License

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.26078/27d9-185c

Checksum

ceaf92341aa01606e776a990adaa81f7

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