Airborne Sodium Lidar Measurements of Mesospheric Gravity Wave Horizontal Structure over the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains

Abstract

In November 1986 an airborne lidar campaign was conducted to study the horizontal structure of the sodium layer. The campaign was based in Denver, CO, and 14 hours of data were collected during three flights over a total baseline of 7,500 km. The aircraft was a Lockheed-Electra operated by the NCAR RAF.