@misc{kaifler_rempel_roßi_büdenbender_kaifler_baturkin_2020, 
  title={A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment BOLIDE}, 
  DOI={10.5194/amt-2020-150}, 
  abstractNote={<jats:p>&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Abstract.&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt; 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 &amp;amp;#8764;38&amp;amp;#8201;km during its maiden &amp;amp;#8764;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&amp;amp;#8201;&amp;amp;#215;&amp;amp;#8201;10&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#8722;10&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#8201;m&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#8722;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#8201;sr&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#8722;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; at a vertical resolution of 100&amp;amp;#8201;m and a time resolution of 30&amp;amp;#8201;s.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
                        </jats:p>}, 
  publisher={Copernicus GmbH}, 
  author={Kaifler, Bernd and Rempel, Dimitry and Roßi, Philipp and Büdenbender, Christian and Kaifler, Natalie and Baturkin, Volodymyr}, 
  year={2020}, 
  month={May}
  }