Internet Archive Scholar

A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment BOLIDE [post]

Bernd Kaifler, Dimitry Rempel, Philipp Roßi, Christian Büdenbender, Natalie Kaifler, Volodymyr Baturkin
2020 unpublished

Preserved Fulltext

fulltext thumbnail
Web Archive Capture PDF (4.6 MB)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210427134610/https://elib.dlr.de/136010/1/amt-13-5681-2020.pdf

A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2021; you can also visit the original URL. The file type is application/pdf.

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> 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
more » ... ment 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<sup>−10</sup> m<sup>−1</sup> sr<sup>−1</sup> at a vertical resolution of 100 m and a time resolution of 30 s.</p>
doi:10.5194/amt-2020-150 fatcat:gg6ag3jko5gn7odu5rvvnqia7m
Open Access
Citation

Bernd Kaifler, Dimitry Rempel, Philipp Roßi, Christian Büdenbender, Natalie Kaifler, Volodymyr Baturkin. "A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment BOLIDE." (2020)