MIPAS detects Antarctic stratospheric belt of NAT PSCs caused by mountain waves

• Main Authors: Höpfner, M., Larsen, N., Spang, R., Luo, B. P., Ma, J., Svendsen, S. H., Eckermann, S. D., Knudsen, B., Massoli, P., Cairo, F., Stiller, G., V. Clarmann, T., Fischer, H.
• Other Authors: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima Zürich, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), Computational Physics, Inc., E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Roma (CNR)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2005
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ellsworth Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00301880; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00301880/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00301880/file/acpd-5-10723-2005.pdf

International audience Space borne infrared limb emission measurements by the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) reveal the formation of a belt of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) of nitric acid trihydrate (NAT) particles over Antarctica in mid-June 2003. By mesoscale...