Ozone Lidar () at Lauder, New Zealand

R. Querel (NIWA) — Installed November 1994 by RIVM (former PI Daan Swart). Participated in OPAL and TOPAL intercomparison campaigns with GSFC mobile lidar, LaRC microwave ozone radiometer, and ozonesondes in 1995 and 2002, respectively. New laser installed and retrieval software updated in 2007; all data reprocessed. Retrieving ozone from 8 to 50 km year-round (attempting to get one measurement per week). Also retrieves aerosols (8 to 25 km) and temperature (8 to 70 km) profiles, though neither is submitted to the NDACC database. Ownership and PI responsibilities transferred from RIVM to NIWA as of July 2017.