A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment BOLIDE
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Abstract. 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 development 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 × 10−10 m−1 sr−1 at a vertical resolution of 100 m and a time resolution of 30 s.
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2011 ◽
Vol 58
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pp. 776-787
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2016 ◽
Vol 11
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pp. P02002-P02002
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2021 ◽
pp. 1-12
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