New Insights into Polar Stratospheric Clouds

New Insights into Polar Stratospheric Clouds - Eos.org

New satellite observations of polar stratospheric clouds have advanced our understanding of how, when, and where they form, their composition, and their role ...

New Insight into Polar Stratospheric Cloud Processes from A-Train ...

Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) play essential roles in the chemical depletion of stratospheric ozone at high latitudes. Heterogeneous reactions occurring ...

Investigating long-term changes in polar stratospheric clouds above ...

In a context of climate change, the cooling of the lower polar stratosphere could enhance polar stratospheric cloud (PSC) formation and by ...

Antarctic research finds exceptional warm air intrusions and ...

Aerosol in the stratosphere has an influence on the occurrence of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), where complex chemical processes take place ...

Why do climate models underestimate polar warming? 'Invisible ...

The team turned their focus to a key atmospheric element that is missing in most models — polar stratospheric clouds — and found that they can ...

Polar Stratospheric Clouds: Satellite Observations, Processes, and ...

However, based on our theoretical and laboratory-based understanding of stratospheric species, PSC chemical speciation can be inferred from ...

Climatology of Polar Stratospheric Clouds Derived from CALIPSO ...

Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) play a crucial role in ozone depletion in the polar stratosphere. In this study, the space-based PSCs record from CALISPO ...

Impact of mountain-wave-induced temperature fluctuations on the ...

Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) form in winter and early spring in the polar stratosphere. Supercooled ternary solution (STS) droplets, nitric ...

New Insights into Polar Stratospheric Clouds | CoLab

New satellite observations of polar stratospheric clouds have advanced our understanding of how, when, and where they form, ...

Antarctic Polar Stratospheric Cloud Analysis of ACE‐FTS Data From ...

Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs) are clouds that form during polar night when temperatures in the stratosphere drop to extreme lows. These ...

Luminous 'mother-of-pearl' clouds explain why climate models miss ...

Polar stratospheric cloud, also known as nacreous clouds from nacre, or mother of pearl ... Luminous 'mother-of-pearl' clouds explain why climate ...

Early Eocene low orography and high methane enhance Arctic ...

Previous studies hypothesized that wintertime polar stratospheric clouds may have played an important role in Arctic warming through greenhouse ...

Polar Stratospheric Clouds - Atmospheric Optics

Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs), also known as nacreous clouds, are a captivating atmospheric phenomenon that occurs in the polar regions during the winter ...

Vortex-wide detection of large polar stratospheric cloud particles in ...

This new method of detecting large NAT particles will provide data to test and refine models, reducing uncertainties in projections of chemical ozone loss in ...

New insights into polar observing systems using numerical models

For example, the number of observations assimilated in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System in a period of 12 hours from one of these ...

Polar Stratospheric Cloud (PSC) | SKYbrary Aviation Safety

Description Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), also known as nacreous clouds from nacre, or mother of pearl, due to their iridescence, are clouds in the ...

Can Polar Stratospheric Clouds Explain Arctic Amplification? in

Previous studies suggest that a large increase in wintertime Arctic polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) might have promoted Arctic amplification through ...

Long-term monitoring of high optical imagery of the stratospheric ...

The stratosphere is very dry; only polar stratospheric clouds (PSCCl) may be found. This type of clouds appears near the poles in the winter season. This ...

Polar Stratospheric Clouds - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

The results might help in understanding polar night chemistry ... Satellite observations have ushered in a new era of stratospheric cloud obser- vations.

Nacreous and Polar Stratospheric Clouds

However, it is now known that Type I clouds play a detrimental role in the destruction of stratospheric ozone over the Antarctic and Arctic ...