Characteristics of cirrus clouds over ALOMAR and their dependence on atmospheric conditions

• Main Author: Larsgård, Nina Elisabeth
• Other Authors: Jón Egill Kristjánsson, Frode Stordal
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: meteorologi oseanografi skyfysikk LIDAR cirrus; VDP::450; Arctic; Andøya; Alomar
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/12474; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-19555

This thesis is a short investigation of cirrus clouds above the ALOMAR observatory at Andøya. Ice clouds are one of the main uncertainties in the cloud effects in atmospheric modelling. Especially ice clouds in the arctic need further investigation. This study uses the Tropospheric Lidar at ALOMAR t...