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AROTEL Home Page
(Airborne Raman, Ozone, Temperature and Aerosol Lidar)
The AROTEL instrument is a collaboration between scientists at NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center and NASA Langley Research Center. The instrument was
designed and constructed to be flown on the NASA DC-8, and to measure vertical
profiles of ozone, temperature and aerosol. The instrument transmits radiation
at 308, 355, 532, and 1064 nm. Depolarization is measured at 532 nm. In
addition to the transmitted wavelengths, Raman scattered signals at 332 nm and
387 nm are also collected. The instrument was installed aboard the DC-8 for
the SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE) which deployed from
Kiruna, Sweden, during the winter of 1999-2000 to study the polar stratosphere.
During this time, vertical profile measurements of backscatter at IR, visible
and UV wavelengths within polar stratospheric clouds, ozone and temperature
were made.
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Last Updated: 5/30/2001
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