Noctilucent clouds (The Harold Jeffreys Lecture)

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Sep 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986qjras..27..351g&link_type=abstract

Royal Astronomical Society, Quarterly Journal (ISSN 0035-8738), vol. 27, Sept. 1986, p. 351-366.

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Cloud Physics, Ice Formation, Noctilucent Clouds, Upper Atmosphere, Atmospheric Composition, Atmospheric Pressure, Polar Regions, Radiance

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Noctilucent clouds are visible during night-time in the summer at high latitudes. They are in the upper atmosphere (typically at 80-85 km altitude) and are very probably of submicron crystals of ice. Forming as they do in a region where the pressure of the atmosphere is one-millionth of that at the ground and where there is very little water vapor, their very existence is at first sight curious. In this account, the observed characteristics of the clouds, their mode of formation and their use in studying the behavior of the upper atmosphere are described.

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