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Comparison of polar mesospheric cloud measurements from the Cloud Imaging and Particle Size experiment and the solar backscatter ultraviolet instrument in 2007
Authors:Susanne Benze  Cora E Randall  Matthew T DeLand  Gary E Thomas  David W Rusch  Scott M Bailey  James M Russell  William McClintock  Aimee W Merkel  Chris Jeppesen
Institution:1. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics & Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 392 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0392, USA;2. Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI), Greenbelt, MD, USA;3. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, 1234 Innovation Drive, Boulder, CO 80303, USA;4. Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnical and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA;5. 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. Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Box 812, SE-981 28 Kiruna, Sweden;2. Space Research Institute, RAS, Profsoyuznaya St. 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia;3. A. M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, RAS, Pyzhevskiy per., 3, Moscow, 119017, Russia;4. Laser Research Center, Vilnius University, Saul?tekio Ave. 10, LT-10223, Vilnius, Lithuania;5. Division for Atmospheric Research, Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova Street 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia;6. NLC CAN AM Network, #7 14130 80 Street, Edmonton, AB, T5C 1L6, Canada;7. NLC NET, 14 Kersland Road, Glengarnock, Ayrshire, KA14 3BA Scotland, UK;8. Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Sauletekio Ave. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania;9. The Danish Association for NLC Research, Denmark;10. The Taustrup Ovesen Cooperation (TOC) Observatory, Århus, Denmark;11. Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, RAS, 9 Piip Boulevard, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683006, Russia;12. The Moscow Association for NLC Research, Kosygina St. 17, Moscow, 119334, Russia;13. The Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-2, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia;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 Science and Engineering Research, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA;2. Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;3. Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA;4. National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan
Abstract:We compare measurements from the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) Cloud Imaging and Particle Size (CIPS) experiment to the NOAA-17 solar backscatter ultraviolet (SBUV/2) instrument during the 2007 Northern Hemisphere polar mesospheric cloud (PMC) season. Daily average Rayleigh scattering albedos determined from identical footprints from the CIPS nadir camera and SBUV/2 agree to better than ~5% throughout the season. Average PMC brightness values derived from the two instruments agree to within ±10%. PMC occurrence frequencies are on average ~5% to nearly a factor of two higher in CIPS, depending on latitude. Agreement is best at high latitudes where clouds are brighter and more frequent. The comparisons indicate that AIM CIPS data are valid for scientific analyses. They also show that CIPS measurements can be linked to the long time series of SBUV/2 data to investigate long-term variability in PMCs.
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