The cloud imaging and particle size experiment on the aeronomy of ice in the mesosphere mission: Cloud morphology for the northern 2007 season |
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| Authors: | DW Rusch GE Thomas W McClintock AW Merkel SM Bailey JM Russell CE Randall C Jeppesen M Callan |
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| Institution: | 1. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA;2. Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnical and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA;3. Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA;1. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA;2. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA;3. University of Rostock, Kuehlungsborn, Germany;4. University of Rostock, Kuehlungsborn, Germany;5. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA;1. Institute of Physics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6, 17489 Greifswald, Germany;2. GATS Inc., Driggs, ID83422, USA;3. Formerly Institute of Physics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Germany;1. Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA;2. Computational Physics Inc., Boulder, CO 80301, USA;3. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA;1. Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA;2. Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Leopoldshafen, Germany;3. School of Physics, Astronomy and Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA;4. Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA;5. Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA;6. Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden;1. Center for Space Sciences and Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States;2. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, United States;3. GATS Inc., Newport News, VA 23606, United States;4. Computational Physics Inc., Boulder, CO 80301, United States;5. Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668, United States;1. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA;2. Center for Space Science and Engineering Research, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA;3. GATS Inc., Driggs, ID 83422, USA;4. Institute of Physics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 4:26:03 EDT on April 25, 2007, becoming the first satellite mission dedicated to the study of noctilucent clouds (NLCs), also known as polar mesospheric clouds (PMC) when viewed from space. We present the first results from one of the three instruments on board the satellite, the Cloud Imaging and Particle Size (CIPS) instrument. CIPS has produced detailed morphology of the Northern 2007 PMC and Southern 2007/2008 seasons with 5 km horizontal spatial resolution. CIPS, with its very large angular field of view, images cloud structures at multiple scattering angles within a narrow spectral bandpass centered at 265 nm. Spatial coverage is 100% above about 70° latitude, where camera views overlap from orbit to orbit, and terminates at about 82°. Spatial coverage decreases to about 50% at the lowest latitudes where data are collected (35°). Cloud structures have for the first time been mapped out over nearly the entire summertime polar region. These structures include ‘ice rings’, spatially small but bright clouds, and large regions (‘ice-free regions’) in the heart of the cloud season essentially devoid of ice particles. The ice rings bear a close resemblance to tropospheric convective outflow events, suggesting a point source of mesospheric convection. These rings (often circular arcs) are most likely Type IV NLC (‘whirls’ in the standard World Meteorological Organization (WMO) nomenclature). |
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