Classification and scales of Antarctic polar stratospheric clouds using wavelet decomposition

• Published in: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• Main Authors: David, Christine, Bekki, Slimane, Berdunov, Nicolai, Marchand, Marion, Snels, Marcellinus, Mégie, Gérard
• Other Authors: Service d'aéronomie (SA), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Physics. Trinity College of Dublin, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2005
• Subjects: Polar stratospheric cloud; Nuage stratosphérique polaire; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]; Antarctic; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont-d'Urville; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00074920; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2004.07.043

Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) observed with a lidar over the French Antarctic station of Dumont d'Urville (DDU, 66°40' S, 14°01' E) in 1996 are classified using backscatter and depolarisation ratio diagrams. Some Type 1 PSCs, called here intermediate-type PSCs, exhibit lidar signa...