Temperature profiles retrieved from the 355-nm Rayleigh channel of the big Raman lidar at the Schneefernerhaus high-altitude station (UFS, 2675 m a.s.l.), calibrated with mesopause OH airglow measurements at UFS, are compared with corresponding profiles from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) for nearby passa-ges. Above 40 km the MLS temperatures exhibit a low bias with respect to the lidar.
Trickl et al. (Thu,) studied this question.