Simultaneous lidar observations of a polar stratospheric cloud on the east and west sides of the Scandinavian mountains and microphysical box model simulations

• Main Authors: Blum, U., Khosrawi, F., Baumgarten, G., Stebel, K., Müller, R., Fricke, K. H.
• Other Authors: Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt (FFI), Department of Meteorology Stockholm (MISU), Stockholm University, Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik (IAP), Universität Rostock-Leibniz Association, Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning (NILU), Institut für Chemie und Dynamik der Geosphäre - Stratosphäre (ICG-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association-Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, Physikalisches Institut Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Esrange; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00318231; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00318231/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00318231/file/angeo-24-3267-2006.pdf

International audience The importance of polar stratospheric clouds (PSC) for polar ozone depletion is well established. Lidar experiments are well suited to observe and classify polar stratospheric clouds. On 5 January 2005 a PSC was observed simultaneously on the east and west sides of the Scandin...