Balloon borne observations of PSCs, frost point, ozone and nitric acid in the North Polar vortex

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Aug 1989

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Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 16, Aug. 1989, p. 791-794. Research supported by NOAA and Department of the

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Balloon-Borne Instruments, Nitric Acid, Ozone Depletion, Polar Regions, Stratosphere, Atmospheric Composition, Northern Hemisphere, Vapor Pressure

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A new balloon-borne instrument called a backscattersonde has been used to study polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) at Alert, NWT during January and February of 1989. These measurements were supplemented with frost-point, ozone, and nitric-acid-vapor soundings. Type I PSCs were observed at temperatures and pressures generally consistent with present vapor-pressure models of NHO3/H2O condensate, but some noticeable inconsistencies exist. It is suggested that characteristic peculiarities in the PSC profiles could be explained by the presence of two phases of the HNO3/H2O condensate.

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