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Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6691-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6691-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
Research article
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14 May 2018
Research article |  | 14 May 2018

The airglow layer emission altitude cannot be determined unambiguously from temperature comparison with lidars

Tim Dunker

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Often, the emission height of the mesospheric hydroxyl layer has been inferred from a comparison of temperature measured by ground-based lidars and hydroxyl spectrometers. I use temperatures measured by two independent instruments to show that such comparisons usually lead to ambiguous height determinations, especially if a variable layer width is taken into account. Even though this dataset is from a single location, the results apply to all airglow layers at any location.
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