Polar mesospheric clouds seen from geostationary orbit

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Jan 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000jastp..62...31g&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 62, Issue 1, p. 31-36.

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The visible image data archived by EUMETSAT have been examined to discover if the whole-Earth images acquired from the geostationary meteorological satellite, METEOSAT, show polar mesospheric clouds above the limb. Images from the northern summer of 1995 show polar mesospheric clouds frequently in June and July at the highest visible latitude (81.3°N) and on occasion extending down as low as 65°N. A first-look at days through the summer shows that there is no marked forward-scatter of sunlight from the clouds and that it is possible to choose times of day throughout the year when there will be no interference to the detection of polar mesospheric clouds from ghost images of the Sun or from light scattered in the optical system of the radiometer. With over 20 years of data in the archive, available for both northern and southern hemispheres, taken under controlled conditions, studies of the climatology of polar mesospheric clouds can develop significantly.

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