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A PREVIOUS communication1 reported preliminary observations of atmospheric backscattering obtained with an optical radar system at the University of Maryland. The purpose of this communication is to report some of our recent results which indicate enhanced scattering near 80 km, to describe some improvements made in our equipment which have eliminated the high background noise that was evident in our earlier data and to comment on the remarks of Bain and Sandford2 pertaining to these data.
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MCCORMICK, P., SILVERBERG, E., POULTNEY, S. et al. Optical Radar Detection of Backscattering from the Upper Atmosphere. Nature 215, 1262–1263 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151262a0
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