Rayleigh temperature lidar applications: Tools and methods

Abstract

After 27 years of continuous operations of the Rayleigh temperature lidar, many tools have been developed. The lidar is well adapted to study the dynamics at several time scales. It includes gravity waves, atmospheric tides, planetary waves and student stratospheric warmings, atmospheric reentry, interannual changes and satellite validations. Methods have been explained as well as the limitations and uncertainties of these analyses.