(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Acott, Phillip Edward, author; She, Chiao Yao, advisor; Krueger, David A., advisor
System upgrades to the Colorado State University Sodium Lidar have enabled over 300 hours of night-time gravity wave momentum flux measurements with concurrent 24-hour measurements of the mean and tidal wind and temperature fields of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region of the atmosphere above Fort Collins, CO. Results include the vertical profile of nighttime zonal momentum flux divided by density (MF/ρ), as well as nighttime wind and temperature variances; the results also provide some insight into the accompanying gravity wave-tidal interactions.
