Post IPY Middle Atmosphere Temperatures from Rayleigh Lidar in Alaska 2011-2014

This data set contains files of individual atmospheric temperature profiles from 40-80 km measured at Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR), Chatanika, Alaska (65.1 N, 147.5 W). The temperature profiles are retrieved from lidar echo data using standard retrieval methods that employ downward data integration under the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium. The initial temperature at 80 km is taken from the Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) Reference Atlas. The PFRR data is available as ASCII files at http://wdcvpa.gi.alaska.edu/. The PFRR data is available as NetCDF files at this site. This NetCDF data is identical in retrieval algorithm and format to the data of project "Pan-Arctic Studies of the Coupled Tropospheric, Stratospheric and Mesospheric Circulation"

本数据集包含采集于美国阿拉斯加州查塔纳卡市波弗特平原研究站（Poker Flat Research Range, PFRR，北纬65.1°，西经147.5°）的40至80千米高度区间内的单条大气温度廓线文件。该温度廓线通过标准反演方法从激光雷达（lidar）回波数据中反演得到，此类方法以静力学平衡为前提假设，采用向下数据积分策略。80千米高度处的初始温度取自《平流层-对流层过程及其在气候中的作用（Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate, SPARC）参考图集》。波弗特平原研究站数据集可通过ASCII格式文件获取，下载地址为http://wdcvpa.gi.alaska.edu/。该数据集同时提供NetCDF格式版本，可在上述网站下载。此NetCDF数据集的反演算法与数据格式，与北极耦合对流层、平流层与中间层环流研究（Pan-Arctic Studies of the Coupled Tropospheric, Stratospheric and Mesospheric Circulation）项目所采用的数据完全一致。