Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4685-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4685-2019
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08 Apr 2019
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A new description of probability density distributions of polar mesospheric clouds

Uwe Berger, Gerd Baumgarten, Jens Fiedler, and Franz-Josef Lübken

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In this paper we present a new description of statistical probability density functions (pdfs) of polar mesospheric clouds (PMC). We derive a new class of pdfs that describes successfully the probability statistic of ALOMAR lidar observations of different ice parameters. As a main advantage the new method allows us to connect different observational PMC distributions of lidar and satellite data, and also to compare with distributions from ice model studies.
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