TEMPERATURE-MEASUREMENTS MADE WITH A COMBINED RAYLEIGH-MIE AND RAMAN LIDAR

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center stratospheric ozone lidar system has the capability of collecting both Rayleigh-Mie and Raman backscatt er data simultaneously at a number of wavelengths. Here we report on a n improved method by which temperature can be derived from a combinati on of the Rayleigh-Mie return at 351-nm lidar channels and the Raman n itrogen return at 382-nm lidar channels. We also examine some common t echniques by which temperatures are retrieved from lidar data. Finally , we show results obtained in 1995 during two Network for the Detectio n of Stratospheric Change intercomparison campaigns at Lauder, New Zea land and Mauna Loa, Hawaii.