Climatology of the upper troposphere with lidar

Philippe Keckhut (1) , Gérard Ancellet (1) , Leah Goldfarb (1) , Alain Hauchecorne (1) , Emmanuel Riedinger (1) , Jean-Luc Baray (2) , Bertrand Cadet (2) , Jean Leveau (2) , Tantely Randriambelo (2) , Anne Réchou (2) , Laurent Robert (2)

1 SA - Service d'aéronomie
2 LPA - Laboratoire de physique de l'atmosphère

Lidar appears to be a good candidate for probing the upper troposphere. Ozone, water vapor, cirrus clouds, and temperature can be measure with lidar. All those measurements have been deployed in two sites. One is located in south of France at mid-latitude of the Northern Hemisphere and the other at the tropical site of the Southern Hemisphere: La Reunion

Domaines: Physique Atmosphérique et Océanique [physics.ao-ph]; Climatologie

Philippe Keckhut, Gérard Ancellet, Leah Goldfarb, Alain Hauchecorne, Emmanuel Riedinger, et al.. Climatology of the upper troposphere with lidar. Third International Asia-Pacific Environmental Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Ocean, Environment and Space, Oct 2002, Hangzhou, China. ⟨10.1117/12.466505⟩. ⟨hal-01633102⟩