Numerical simulations of the three-dimensional distribution of polar mesospheric clouds and comparisons with Cloud Imaging and Particle Size (CIPS) experiment and the Solar Occultation For Ice Experiment (SOFIE) observations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Bardeen, C G ^a,b   Toon, O B ^a   Jensen, E J ^c   Hervig, M E ^d   Randall, C E ^a   Benze, S ^a   Marsh, D R ^b   Merkel, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d GATS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HEATING; HYDRODYNAMICS; ICE; NUCLEATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER VAPOR; WAVES;

CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUD IMAGING; CLOUD PROPERTIES; COLD SUMMERS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MESOPAUSE REGION; MICROPHYSICS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUCLEATION RATE; NUMBER DENSITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS; RADIATION MODELS; RADIATIVE HEATING; SCALE GRAVITY; SMOKE PARTICLES; SOLAR OCCULTATION; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GRAVITY WAVE; HEATING; ICE CRYSTAL; MESOPAUSE; MOMENTUM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77953168133     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012451     Document Type: Article

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