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

• Main Authors: Höpfner, Michael, Larsen, Niels, Spang, Reinhold, Luo, Beiping P., Ma, J., Svendsen, S.H., Eckermann, Stephen D., Knudsen, Bjørn, Massoli, Paola, Cairo, Francesco, Stiller, Gabriele, Von Clarmann, Thomas, Fischer, Herbert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2006
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ellsworth Mountains; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/37062; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000037062

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 microphysical simulati...