Abstract
The Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change is an international cooperation providinga set of high-quality, remote-sensing instruments at observing stations around the globe. A brief description of the NDSC and its goals is presented. Lidar has been selected as the NDSC instrument for measurements of stratospheric profiles of ozone, temperature and aerosol. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has developed and implemented two stratospheric lidarsystems for NDSC. These are located at Table Mountain, California, and at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. These systems, which utilize differential absorption lidar, Rayleigh lidar, Raman lidarand backscatter lidar, to measure ozone, temperature and aerosol profiles in the stratosphereare briefly described. Examples of results obtained for both long-term and individual profilesare presented.
