The diurnal variation of polar mesospheric cloud frequency near 55°N observed by SHIMMER

Details The diurnal variation of polar mesospheric cloud frequency near 55°N observed by SHIMMER The diurnal variation of polar mesospheric cloud frequency near 55°N observed by SHIMMER

Mar 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jastp..71..401s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 71, Issue 3-4, p. 401-407.

Physics

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Noctilucent Clouds, Polar Mesospheric Clouds, Tides, Mesosphere, Arctic

Scientific paper

We present the first measurement of polar mesospheric cloud (PMC) occurrence frequency over the diurnal cycle from a satellite. The observations are made during the 2007 northern hemisphere PMC season by the Spatial Heterodyne IMager for MEsospheric Radicals (SHIMMER), which views the limb near 309 nm typically between 34 and 98 km. The PMC diurnal variation is derived between 50 and 58°N, where local times at the tangent point precess by ~30 min/day allowing for observations between 0330 and 2130 local time during the PMC season. We find that the occurrence frequencies exhibit a strong semidiurnal behavior with peaks near 0600 and 1800 local time and a minimum between 0900 and 1600 during which they are on average an order of magnitude less. The semidiurnal dependence is strongly correlated with concurrent ground-based measurements of meridional winds and temperatures measured at the same latitude. Our results for PMC frequency over the diurnal cycle can be used to help reconcile observations from other satellites that only permit cloud measurements at discrete local times.

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