Global Characteristics of PMCs From six Years of SNOE Data

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufmsa42b..01m&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #SA42B-01

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3332 Mesospheric Dynamics, 3334 Middle Atmosphere Dynamics (0341, 0342), 3360 Remote Sensing

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The Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) satellite has successfully measured ten polar mesospheric cloud (PMC) seasons in its six year lifetime. Because SNOE orbits the Earth 15 times a day with high latitude resolution, it is the first to clearly illustrate the global day-to-day variability of PMCs. This is an advantage over other datasets in that we can look at dynamical influences on PMCs, specifically variations in brightness with a 5-day period. SNOE on average detects 10,000 PMCs per season allowing us to successfully study PMC morphology, PMC altitudes, and seasonal variability in observation frequency and brightness. Although PMCs are arguably an indicator of long term global change, we illustrate that they are highly variable on a day-to-day global scale.

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