Solar and lunar tides in noctilucent clouds as determined by ground-based lidar

Fiedler, Jens; Baumgarten, Gerd

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16051-2018

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08 Nov 2018

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| 08 Nov 2018

Solar and lunar tides in noctilucent clouds as determined by ground-based lidar

Jens Fiedler and Gerd Baumgarten

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RC1: 'Review of Paper acp-2018-582 by J. Fiedler and G. Baumgarten', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer comments', Jens Fiedler, 17 Oct 2018
RC2: 'Review for “Solar and lunar tides in noctilucent clouds as determined by ground-based lidar” by Jens Fiedler and Gerd Baumgarten', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer comments', Jens Fiedler, 17 Oct 2018
AC3: 'Manuscript with changes marked', Jens Fiedler, 17 Oct 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jens Fiedler on behalf of the Authors (19 Oct 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (22 Oct 2018) by Martin Dameris

Short summary

Ice particles of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) are used as a tracer to investigate tidal signatures in the altitude range from 80 to 90 km. For the first time solar and lunar tidal parameters in NLCs were determined simultaneously from the same data set. Solar variations are dominated by diurnal and semidiurnal tidal components. For NLC occurrence the lunar semidiurnal amplitude is approx. 50 % of the solar semidiurnal amplitude. Phases of solar components indicate upward propagating tides.