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Burris et al. 1998
Burris, J., Heaps, W., Gary, B., Hoegy, W., Lait, L., McGee, T., Gross, M. and Singh, U. (1998). Lidar temperature measurements during the Tropical Ozone Transport Experiment (TOTE)/Vortex Ozone Transport Experiment (VOTE) mission. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: doi: 10.1029/97JD03129. issn: 0148-0227.

Temperature profiles were acquired on the Tropical Ozone Transport Experiment (TOTE) and Vortex Ozone Transport Experiment (VOTE) flights by the Goddard Airborne Raman Lidar. The objective was to compare the temperature product from this new instrument with those generated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Microwave Temperature Profiler and Goddard Space Flight Center's ground-based Stratospheric Ozone Lidar. Simultaneous measurements were made between the Airborne Raman Lidar and O3 lidar on three dates; average temperatures differences varied from ~0.5 K-5 K over the 16--24 km altitude region. Comparisons between the Microwave Temperature Profiler and Airborne Raman Lidar for all flights (17) during TOTE/VOTE were performed over the same altitude region. The average temperature difference, Airborne Raman Lidar minus Microwave Temperature Profiler, was +2.3 K. In comparing temperatures between the Airborne Raman Lidar and Goddard's Data Assimilation Model, the ARL showed small scale structures not evident in those of the model for altitudes between ~16 and 43 km. ¿ 1998 American Geophysical Union

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Pressure, density, and temperature, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Instruments and techniques, Atmospheric Composition and Structure
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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