Lidar observations of Arctic polar stratospheric clouds, 1988 - Signature of small, solid particles above the frost point

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Aug 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988georl..15..867p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 15, Aug. 1988, p. 867-870.

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Cloud Glaciation, Ice Clouds, Optical Radar, Polar Regions, Stratosphere, Arctic Regions, Atmospheric Temperature, Frost, P-3 Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Synoptic Measurement

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The paper presents recent (January 1988) Arctic airborne lidar data which suggest that Type I polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are composed of small solid particles with radii on the order of 0.5 micron. PSCs were observed remotely in the 21-24 km altitude range north of Greenland during a round-trip flight from Andenes, Norway on January 29, 1988, aboard the NASA Wallops Flight Facility P-3 Orion aircraft. Synoptic analyses at the 30-mb level show local temperatures of 191-193 K, which are well above the estimated frost point temperature of 185 K; this suggests that the PSCs were probably of the binary HNO3-H2O (Type I) class.

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