Synchronized imagery of noctilucent clouds at the day-night terminator using airborne and spaceborne platforms

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Sep 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011jastp..73.2091r&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 73, Issue 14-15, p. 2091-2096.

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A synchronized observation of a noctilucent cloud (NLC) using an airborne camera and a polar mesospheric cloud (PMC) using spaceborne cameras was obtained on 6 July 2009. Two Canon EOS-30D cameras were integrated to a Mooney M20K research aircraft and flown to a location of 58.32°N, 112.30OW in Northern Alberta, Canada to coordinate with the overpass of the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite at 06:48 GMT. The aircraft was positioned so that imagery would be taken while the sun was at a solar depression angle (SDA) of 8.5° and then oriented so that the imager would be pointed along the AIM groundtrack. The common-volume imagery obtained from both the cloud imaging and particle size (CIPS) experiment and the aircraft at the time of the AIM overpass concurrently detected clouds identified by similar band structures. The imagery from the aircraft also shows fine transverse cloud structures not discernable within the CIPS image, implying that greater spatial resolution is achievable through the airborne imagery. Subsequent analysis of the CIPS imagery from the AIM satellite at this location shows a correlation in orientation of the prominent structures in both sets of imagery, showing overlay of prominent features and coincidence of band orientation.

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