Abstract

A better understanding of the interaction between the waves and the background wind in the altitude range 25 - 65 km, where there is still no possibility to monitor adequately the wind field, led to the development of a new Doppler lidar designed to cover this height range, and therefore it had to rely on Rayleigh scattering from air molecules. The possibility to measure mean winds in the middle atmosphere with this new Doppler lidar has been demonstrated. Its extension down to the tropopause is under study.

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