Balloon borne Antarctic frost point measurements and their impact on polar stratospheric cloud theories

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Aug 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988georl..15..859r&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 15, Aug. 1988, p. 859-862.

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Balloon-Borne Instruments, Cloud Glaciation, Stratosphere, Water Vapor, Antarctic Regions, Atmospheric Moisture, Frost, Optical Radar, Temperature Profiles

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Balloon-borne frost point measurements were performed over Antarctica during September-October 1987 as part of the NOZE II effort at McMurdo. The results show water mixing ratios on the order of 2 ppmv in the 20 km region, suggesting that models of the springtime Antarctic stratosphere should be based on approximately 2 ppmv water vapor. Evidence indicating that some PSCs form at temperatures higher than the frost point in the 15 to 20 km region is discussed. This supports the binary HNO3-H2O theory of PSC composition.

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