Lidar Soundings of Noctilucent Clouds during the PMC Turbo Balloon Mission
Noctilucent clouds are optically thin layers of ice particles occuring around 83 km altitude during polar summer. Their intriguing fine-scale structure provides a means to study atmospheric waves and instabilities in the sensitive mesopause region of our atmosphere. For the first time, noctilucent c...
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ftdlr:oai:elib.dlr.de:127963 2024-05-19T07:43:29+00:00 Lidar Soundings of Noctilucent Clouds during the PMC Turbo Balloon Mission Kaifler, Natalie Kaifler, Bernd Rapp, Markus Fritts, D. C. Williams, Bifford P. Kjellstrand, Bjorn Geach, Christopher Miller, Amber Limon, Michele Hanany, Shaul Jones, Glenn Reimuller, Jason 2019 application/pdf https://elib.dlr.de/127963/ https://elib.dlr.de/127963/1/A-035_Natalie_Kaifler_ESA_PAC.pdf https://atpi.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/pac-symposium-2018/home/ExtraContent/ContentSubPage?page=1&subPage=7 en eng https://elib.dlr.de/127963/1/A-035_Natalie_Kaifler_ESA_PAC.pdf Kaifler, Natalie und Kaifler, Bernd und Rapp, Markus und Fritts, D. C. und Williams, Bifford P. und Kjellstrand, Bjorn und Geach, Christopher und Miller, Amber und Limon, Michele und Hanany, Shaul und Jones, Glenn und Reimuller, Jason (2019) Lidar Soundings of Noctilucent Clouds during the PMC Turbo Balloon Mission. 24th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon programmes and related research, 2019-06-16 - 2019-06-20, Essen, Germany. (nicht veröffentlicht) Lidar Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre Konferenzbeitrag NonPeerReviewed 2019 ftdlr 2024-04-25T00:50:07Z Noctilucent clouds are optically thin layers of ice particles occuring around 83 km altitude during polar summer. Their intriguing fine-scale structure provides a means to study atmospheric waves and instabilities in the sensitive mesopause region of our atmosphere. For the first time, noctilucent clouds were observed using a backscatter lidar and multiple cameras from a balloon platform. The NASA long-duration balloon PMC-Turbo was launched in July 2018 from Kiruna, Sweden, and floated at 40 km altitude during six days to northern Canada. During the mission, a large dataset with unprecedented high-resolution soundings of noctilucent clouds down to scales of few meters were obtained. The combination of near-vertical lidar soundings with horizontal structures visible in narrow- and wide-field of view cameras allows to fully characterize the morphological structures of noctilucent clouds that are modulated by gravity waves, and reveal dynamic processes such as the breaking of these waves, the generation of various types of instabilities and transitions to turbulence. Conference Object Kiruna German Aerospace Center: elib - DLR electronic library |
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Noctilucent clouds are optically thin layers of ice particles occuring around 83 km altitude during polar summer. Their intriguing fine-scale structure provides a means to study atmospheric waves and instabilities in the sensitive mesopause region of our atmosphere. For the first time, noctilucent clouds were observed using a backscatter lidar and multiple cameras from a balloon platform. The NASA long-duration balloon PMC-Turbo was launched in July 2018 from Kiruna, Sweden, and floated at 40 km altitude during six days to northern Canada. During the mission, a large dataset with unprecedented high-resolution soundings of noctilucent clouds down to scales of few meters were obtained. The combination of near-vertical lidar soundings with horizontal structures visible in narrow- and wide-field of view cameras allows to fully characterize the morphological structures of noctilucent clouds that are modulated by gravity waves, and reveal dynamic processes such as the breaking of these waves, the generation of various types of instabilities and transitions to turbulence. |
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Lidar Soundings of Noctilucent Clouds during the PMC Turbo Balloon Mission |
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https://elib.dlr.de/127963/1/A-035_Natalie_Kaifler_ESA_PAC.pdf Kaifler, Natalie und Kaifler, Bernd und Rapp, Markus und Fritts, D. C. und Williams, Bifford P. und Kjellstrand, Bjorn und Geach, Christopher und Miller, Amber und Limon, Michele und Hanany, Shaul und Jones, Glenn und Reimuller, Jason (2019) Lidar Soundings of Noctilucent Clouds during the PMC Turbo Balloon Mission. 24th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon programmes and related research, 2019-06-16 - 2019-06-20, Essen, Germany. (nicht veröffentlicht) |
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