PMC Measurements from the Solar Occultation For Ice Experiment (SOFIE)

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufmsa14a..01h&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SA14A-01

Physics

0300 Atmospheric Composition And Structure, 0305 Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906), 0320 Cloud Physics And Chemistry

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The Solar Occultation For Ice Experiment (SOFIE) was launched onboard the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite to measure polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) and the environment in which they form. SOFIE measurements are used to retrieve vertical profiles of temperature, O3, H2O, CO2, CH4, NO, and PMC extinction at 11 wavelengths from 0.33 to 5 microns. SOFIE offers unprecedented sensitivity to PMCs, and is able to detect clouds that are from 30 to 100 times dimmer than could be observed by previous satellite and ground based instruments. SOFIE PMC measurements are used to characterize the altitude dependence of particle shape, ice mass density, and particle size. This work describes results using PMC measurements from the 2007 northern polar summer.

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