Noctilucent clouds and the mesospheric water vapour: The past decade

• Main Authors: von Zahn, U., Baumgarten, G., Berger, U., Fiedler, J., Hartogh, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: München : European Geopyhsical Union 2004
• Subjects: 550; Alomar; Arctic; albedo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.34657/1145; https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/251

The topic of this paper is the sensitivity of the brightness of noctilucent clouds (NLC) on the ambient water vapour mixing ratio f(H2O). 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(H2O) for the tw...