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Future Lidars for Cutting-Edge Sciences in Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere-Stratosphere Physics and Space-Atmosphere Coupling

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Proceedings of the 30th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC 2022)

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In the last 15 years, the middle-upper-atmosphere lidar observations have evolved from narrow altitude ranges to the significantly extended altitude ranges of neutral profiling from near the ground up to ~200 km and of ion detection up to ~300 km. A latest development was the first detection of helium to ~700 km. These results demonstrate the huge potentials that lidars bring to the ionosphere-thermosphere-mesosphere-stratosphere (ITMS) physics research as well as to the plasma-neutral coupling studies in the near space environment. This chapter highlights several stunning discoveries made from lidar measurements, including the thermosphere-ionosphere metal (TIMt) layers, full coverage of gravity wave temporal spectrum, and multistep vertical coupling, to illustrate the significant progresses in atmosphere-space sciences. Then we focus on identifying future lidar technologies in enabling cutting-edge sciences in the ITMS physics and interactions between plasma space and neutral atmosphere.

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  1. Cooperative Institute of Research in Environmental Sciences & Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

    **nzhao Chu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, China

    Guotao Yang

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  1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    John T. Sullivan

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Thierry Leblanc

  3. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO, USA

    Sara Tucker

  4. Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Belay Demoz

  5. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin‑Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Edwin Eloranta

  6. NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA

    Chris Hostetler

  7. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hino-shi, Tokyo, Japan

    Shoken Ishii

  8. Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Potenza, Italy

    Lucia Mona

  9. Department of Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA

    Fred Moshary

  10. School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Alexandros Papayannis

  11. Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA

    Krishna Rupavatharam

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Chu, X., Yang, G. (2023). Future Lidars for Cutting-Edge Sciences in Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere-Stratosphere Physics and Space-Atmosphere Coupling. In: Sullivan, J.T., et al. Proceedings of the 30th International Laser Radar Conference. ILRC 2022. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37818-8_8

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