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"本数据集收录了位于美国阿拉斯加州查塔纳卡市的波弗特弗拉特研究靶场（Poker Flat Research Range, PFRR，地理坐标为北纬65.1°，西经147.5°）测得的40~80千米高度区间内的单条大气温度廓线文件。上述温度廓线系通过标准反演方法，从激光雷达（lidar）回波数据中反演得到，该方法在静力平衡假设下采用向下数据积分的处理逻辑。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（SPARC）参考图集》。该PFRR数据集可通过访问http://wdcvpa.gi.alaska.edu/ 获取美国信息交换标准代码（ASCII）格式文件，该站点同时提供网络通用数据格式（NetCDF）版本的数据集。该NetCDF格式数据在反演算法与文件格式上，与“泛北极地区对流层、平流层与中层环流耦合研究”项目的数据集完全一致。