Articles | Volume 18, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5089-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5089-2018
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16 Apr 2018
Research article |  | 16 Apr 2018

A climatology of polar stratospheric cloud composition between 2002 and 2012 based on MIPAS/Envisat observations

Reinhold Spang, Lars Hoffmann, Rolf Müller, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Ines Tritscher, Michael Höpfner, Michael Pitts, Andrew Orr, and Martin Riese

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MIPAS/Envisat Observations of Polar Stratospheric Clouds r3edata.org https://doi.org/10.17616/R3BN26

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This paper represents an unprecedented pole-covering day- and nighttime climatology of the polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) based on satellite measurements, their spatial distribution, and composition of different particle types. The climatology has a high potential for the validation and improvement of PSC schemes in chemical transport and chemistry–climate models, which is important for a better prediction of future polar ozone loss in a changing climate.
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