Noctilucent clouds and the mesospheric water vapour: the past decade

• Main Authors: von Zahn, U., Berger, U., Fiedler, J., Hartogh, P.
• Other Authors: Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics (AIP), Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy (MPAe), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2004
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; Alomar; Arctic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00301283; https://hal.science/hal-00301283/document; https://hal.science/hal-00301283/file/acpd-4-3045-2004.pdf

International audience The topic of this paper is the expected (from modelling) and observed sensitivity of the brightness ? of noctilucent clouds (NLC) on the ambient water vapour mixing ratio f (H 2 O). Firstly, we show that state-of-the-art models of NLC layer formation predict that in the Arctic...