Noctilucent clouds and the mesospheric water vapour: the past decade

• Main Authors: U. von Zahn, G. Baumgarten, U. Berger, J. Fiedler, P. Hartogh
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2004
• Subjects: Physics; QC1-999; Chemistry; QD1-999; Arctic; Alomar; albedo
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/5f8e86a7477f451aa7f385aec9dbea46

The topic of this paper is the sensitivity of the brightness of noctilucent clouds (NLC) on the ambient water vapour mixing ratio f(H 2 O). Firstly, we use state-of-the-art models of NLC layer formation to predict NLC brightness changes in response to changes in the 80km mixing ratio f(H 2 O) for th...