Mesospheric Cloud Variations as an Indicator of Climatology

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May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agusmsa33b..02o&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SA33B-02

Physics

0300 Atmospheric Composition And Structure, 0341 Middle Atmosphere: Constituent Transport And Chemistry (3334), 0342 Middle Atmosphere: Energy Deposition (3334), 1616 Climate Variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513)

Scientific paper

Noctilucent Clouds have been observed for over 120 years and several observational data sets have been generated. More recently satellite and ground-based lidar observations of these mesospheric clouds [MC] have provided additional information including the first long-term (2+ solar cycle), global measurements. The formation of these "ice clouds at the edge of space" provides a unique tool for inferring the climate of the high latitude summer mesosphere. Satellite data sets suggest both a strong solar cycle effect and also longer term trends. Sources of these changes in MC, via changes in mesospheric water vapor, temperature, and dynamics, will be addressed based upon recent studies that include significant coupling between the upper/middle atmosphere and the lower atmosphere.

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