Comparison of PMC measurements from AIM and SBUV/2

Details Comparison of PMC measurements from AIM and SBUV/2 Comparison of PMC measurements from AIM and SBUV/2

Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufmsa21a0253b&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SA21A-0253

Physics

0399 General Or Miscellaneous, 2400 Ionosphere (6929), 2459 Planetary Ionospheres (5435, 5729, 6026), 2499 General Or Miscellaneous, 6999 General Or Miscellaneous

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The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft, launched on April 25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, is a satellite mission that explores Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs) in order to find out why they form and why they are changing. Results of this mission will provide new knowledge about the connection between PMCs and the meteorology of the polar mesosphere. The Cloud Imaging and Particle Size (CIPS) instrument is a nadir- viewing instrument from which PMC frequency and brightness can be inferred. It produces panoramic images of scattered radiation at 265 nm with a field of view of 1800 x 800 km and high spatial resolution. This work provides a first comparison of CIPS PMC morphology to concurrent results from the Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV/2) instrument, which has provided a 28-year climatology of PMC brightness and frequency. CIPS and SBUV/2 PMC detections are compared for selected days in the 2007 northern hemispheric season. To facilitate comparison, the CIPS footprint of 1x2 km is binned to match the SBUV/2 footprint of 150x150 km at the PMC altitude of 80 km. Because CIPS measures only one wavelength at 265 nm, the SBUV PMC detection algorithm, which normally uses data at five wavelengths between 252-292 nm, is simplified to an algorithm applying just one wavelength. It will be shown that the single wavelength SBUV/2 algorithm gives similar results to the original algorithm. PMC frequency and brightness derived from both CIPS and SBUV/2 using the common algorithm will be compared. Cloud brightness for all latitudes agrees to within 1 percent over the season. In addition, a coincidence analysis of CIPS and all three operational SBUV/2 instruments for the summer 2007 season will be shown.

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