1. Sodium Lidar at Colorado State University
Faculty: Joe She and David Krueger, Physics
Steve Reising, Computer and Electrical Engr.
Post Doc: Tao Yuan
Graduate Students: Phil Acott, Sean Harrell, Jia Yue, Shannon Woods
Funding: NSF and NASA
Measure temperatures and horizontal wind velocities in the mesopause region (80 – 105 km) of the earth’s atmosphere (with CSU innovations)
Measure: night and day,
Time scales of
10’s of minutes (gravity waves),
10’s of hours (tides),
10’s of weeks (seasonal variations),
10’s of years (solar cycle effects)
Vertical wavelengths (10’s of km)
50 Miles
Observatories:
a. CSU foothills campus
b. ALOMAR in Norway [now being run by
Colorado Research Associates, NSF CRRL
Science studies:
Climate change with 17 years data
Climatology of mean states and tides
Concurrent imager and lidar studies