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@ARTICLE{Spang:44587,
author = {Spang, R. and Remedios, J. J. and Kramer, L. J. and Poole,
L. R. and Fromm, M. D. and Müller, M. and Baumgarten, G.
and Konopka, Paul},
title = {{P}olar stratospheric cloud observations by {MIPAS} on
{ENVISAT}: detection method, validation and analysis of the
northern hemisphere winter 2002/2003},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {5},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-44587},
pages = {679 - 692},
year = {2005},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric
Sounding (MIPAS) on ENVISAT has made extensive measurements
of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) in the northern
hemisphere winter 2002/2003. A PSC detection method based on
a ratio of radiances (the cloud index) has been implemented
for MIPAS and is validated in this study with respect to
ground-based lidar and space borne occultation measurements.
A very good correspondence in PSC sighting and cloud
altitude between MIPAS detections and those of other
instruments is found for cloud index values of less than
four. Comparisons with data from the Stratospheric Aerosol
and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III are used to further show that
the sensitivity of the MIPAS detection method for this
threshold value of cloud index is approximately equivalent
to an extinction limit of 10(-3) km(-1) at 1022 nm, a
wavelength used by solar occultation experiments. The MIPAS
cloud index data are subsequently used to examine, for the
first time with any technique, the evolution of PSCs
throughout the Arctic polar vortex up to a latitude close to
90degrees north on a near-daily basis. We find that the
winter of 2002/2003 is characterised by three phases of very
different PSC activity. First, an unusual, extremely cold
phase in the first three weeks of December resulted in high
PSC occurrence rates. This was followed by a second phase of
only moderate PSC activity from 5-13 January, separated from
the first phase by a minor warming event. Finally there was
a third phase from February to the end of March where only
sporadic and mostly weak PSC events took place. The
composition of PSCs during the winter period has also been
examined, exploiting in particular an infra-red spectral
signature which is probably characteristic of NAT. The MIPAS
observations show the presence of these particles on a
number of occasions in December but very rarely in January.
The PSC type differentiation from MIPAS indicates that
future comparisons of PSC observations with microphysical
and denitrification models might be revealing about aspects
of solid particle existence and location.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-I},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB47},
pnm = {Chemie und Dynamik der Geo-Biosphäre},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK257},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000227344000002},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/44587},
}