K. Strong (U. Toronto) — Stratospheric Ozone Lidar system (SOLID) deployed in February 1993 under PI A. Carswell. Nighttime operations only. SOLID has five detection channels, including one Rayleigh channel (353 nm), and one Raman channel (385 nm, installed in 1994) used for aerosol retrieval. Operation suspended for 2002 and 2003. Operations resumed in 2004–2009 on a campaign basis schedule (~2 weeks in February–March) under PI K. Strawbridge. Operation suspended for 2010–2016 due to technical and funding issues. Operations resumed under PI J. Drummond since 2017 on the ~4–6 week period leading up to polar sunrise in January–March and ~2 week period in October–November. Since 2020 the PI of SOLID and PEARL is Kimberly Strong (University of Toronto).
Early data exist in the database for 1994–1998 in NASA Ames format.