We describe here a DIAL lidar system for atmospheric ozone measurements at
Aberystwyth, Wales, together with a method for deriving a stratospheric ozo
ne profile from a single laser wavelength. Lidar measurements are used to d
epict the passage of three mesoscale ozone disturbances in the troposphere
and stratosphere. In the troposphere, two small fold-like structures are sh
own beneath and at the edge of streamers of high potential vorticity in ECM
WF analyses. MST radar measurements at the same time show that one of these
folds was actively turbulent, causing mixing of stratospheric and troposph
eric air. In the stratosphere, a streamer of low-latitude air drawn into a
filament by a breaking Rossby wave event was observed crossing the lidar si
te.