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- Title
A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment BOLIDE.
- Authors
Kaifler, Bernd; Rempel, Dimitry; Roßi, Philipp; Büdenbender, Christian; Kaifler, Natalie; Baturkin, Volodymyr
- Abstract
The Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE) was the first high-power lidar flown and operated successfully onboard a balloon platform. As part of the PMC Turbo payload, the instrument acquired high resolution backscatter profiles of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs) from an altitude of 38 km during its maiden 6 day flight from Esrange, Sweden, to Northern Canada in July 2018. We describe the BOLIDE instrument and its development and report on the predicted and actual in-flight performance. Although the instrument suffered from excessively high background noise, we were able to detect PMCs with a volume backscatter coefficient as low as 0.6 × 10-10 m-1 sr-1 at a vertical resolution of 100 m and a time resolution of 30 s.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; CANADA; NOCTILUCENT clouds; LIDAR; BACKSCATTERING; BALLOONS
- Publication
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, 2020, p1
- ISSN
1867-8610
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/amt-2020-150