Publication Date:
2019-04-03
Description:
Mean temperatures in the polar summer mesopause can drop to 130 K. The low temperatures in combination with water vapor mixing ratios of a few parts per million give rise to the formation of ice particles. These ice particles may be observed as polar mesospheric clouds. Mesospheric ice cloud formation is believed to initiate heterogeneously on small aerosol particles (r
Print ISSN:
1680-7316
Electronic ISSN:
1680-7324
Topics:
Geosciences