Unusual appearance of mother-of-pearl clouds above El Calafate, Argentina (50°21′S, 72°16′W)

• Published in: Weather
• Main Authors: Dörnbrack, Andreas, Kaifler, Bernd, Kaifler, Natalie, Rapp, Markus, Wildmann, Norman, Garhammar, Markus, Ohlmann, Klaus, Payne, James, M., Sandercock, Morgan, Austin, Elisabeth, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Verkehrsmeteorologie; Lidar; Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Argentina; Austral; Perlan; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/142591/; https://elib.dlr.de/142591/1/doernbrack_20.pdf; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.3863

Visual observations from the ground and from a glider soaring in the lowermost stratosphere revealed the existence of stratospheric mother-of-pearl clouds above El Calafate in the lee of the Andes on 11 September 2019. The appearance of these clouds is rather unusual considering the time – end of th...