DTIC ADA188936: Polar Mesospheric Cloud Experiment pdf

DTIC ADA188936: Polar Mesospheric Cloud Experiment

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This project consists of the design and fabrication of a satellite-borne ultraviolet atmospheric experiment. The components of the instrument will both image and make quantitative polarization measurements of the scattered light from polar mesospheric clouds (PMC) occuring in the high-latitude summertime mesosphere at heights of 85 km. Its scientific objectives are: 1) to determine the morphology, scattering and attenuation properties, occurrence frequency statistics, and statistical distribution of spatial scales of PMC and other aerosol layers in the upper mesosphere; 2) to derive information on the atmospheric wave activity in the summertime mesosphere over all horizontal spatial scales greater than about 2 kilometers; and 3) to determine the mean particle size of PMC particles, to characterize its dependence on latitude, longitude, wave activity and PMC brightness

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 9/21/1987
• Year: 1987
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, Thomas, Gary E, COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER LAB FOR ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE PHYSICS, *CLOUDS, *LIGHT SCATTERING, *MESOSPHERE, AEROSOLS, ATMOSPHERES, HORIZONTAL ORIENTATION, INSTRUMENTATION, LATITUDE, LAYERS, MEAN, MEASUREMENT, PARTICLE SIZE, PARTICLES, POLAR REGIONS, POLARIZATION, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS, RADIATION ATTENUATION, ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION

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