Four months of autonomous Arctic lidar operation at Andøya

After more than four months of operation at Andøya Space, the first atmospheric lidar developed in EULIAA continues to run “business as usual”.
The mobile IR lidar has been measuring autonomously whenever Arctic winter weather allows, without any need for optical realignment or maintenance, while maintaining stable performance.
It retrieves wind and temperature in real time from aerosol scattering (up to ~25 km), molecular scattering (up to ~50 km) and metal layers (up to ~100 km), providing unique data to improve numerical weather prediction and climate monitoring.