Advances in Lidar Remote Sensing Research in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere

Dear Colleagues,

It is an honor to invite you to submit your work to a Special Issue of “Advances in Lidar Remote Sensing Research in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere” by the open-access journal Atmosphere.

Due to the excellent advantages of high precision, high resolution, and specific chemical element component detection in the remote sensing field, Lidar has become an important technology for studying the middle and upper atmosphere. For instance, the Rayleigh lidar can provide measurements of the air density, temperature, and wind of the middle atmosphere between ~30 and ~80km by measuring the Rayleigh scattering signal and the related Doppler shift of atmospheric molecules. The metal fluorescence lidar can measure the metal densities such as atomic sodium, potassium, calcium, and ionic calcium in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region by measuring the fluorescence scattering signal of metallic atoms and ions between ~80 and ~110km, as well as the neutral temperature and wind field data when the broadened Doppler frequency shift of the fluorescence signal detections are realized. These unique data enable us to further study the dynamic and chemical processes in the MLT. In the past decade, lots of studies have reported the characteristics of metallic atoms and ions in the higher thermosphere and ionosphere by lidar detections; especially the calcium ions that have recently been detected up to 300km, which effectively extends the detection height of lidar, attracting researchers’ attention in the field of metal layer study of the middle and upper atmosphere. Furthermore, researchers are developing lidars to detect the fluorescence scattering from helium atoms at 200 -1000km, and the lidar detection range is expect to extend extreme height.

In recognition of the recent advances, the journal Atmosphere is planning a Special Issue as a compilation to showcase the current studies of the middle and upper atmosphere with lidar remote sensing technology. Authors are encouraged to submit an original paper that includes but not limited to the topics of the relevant lidar research on metallic species, neutral wind and temperature observations, lidar instrumentation, as well as the theoretical mechanism analysis and modeling.

Dr. Guotao Yang
Dr. Zhibin Yu
Dr. Shaohua Gong
Guest Editors

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