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, Garhammer, Markus, Ohlmann, Klaus, Payne, James M., Sandercock, Morgan, Austin, Elizabeth J., 1 Institut für Physik der AtmosphäreDLR OberpfaffenhofenOberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 2 Meteorologisches InstitutLudwig‐Maximilians‐Universität MünchenMunich, Germany, 3 Mountain Wave Project e. VGrand TerrusMontclus, France, 4 The Perlan Project, IncBeaverton Oregon USA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2020
• Subjects: ddc:551.5; Argentina; ice cloud formation; Austral; Perlan; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.23689/fidgeo-4055; http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/8395

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...