Quasi-coincident observations of polar stratospheric clouds by ground-based lidar and CALIOP at Concordia (Dome C, Antarctica) from 2014 to 2018

Snels, Marcel; Colao, Francesco; Cairo, Francesco; Shuli, Ilir; Scoccione, Andrea; De Muro, Mauro; Pitts, Michael; Poole, Lamont; Di Liberto, Luca

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2165-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2165-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2165-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 3

Research article

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15 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 15 Feb 2021

Quasi-coincident observations of polar stratospheric clouds by ground-based lidar and CALIOP at Concordia (Dome C, Antarctica) from 2014 to 2018

Marcel Snels, Francesco Colao, Francesco Cairo, Ilir Shuli, Andrea Scoccione, Mauro De Muro, Michael Pitts, Lamont Poole, and Luca Di Liberto

Data sets

Ground-based lidar data at Dome C, list of monthly files M. Snels https://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ndacc/station/dome/ames/lidar/

Short summary

A total of 5 years of polar stratospheric cloud (PSC) observations by ground-based lidar at Concordia station (Antarctica) are presented. These data have been recorded in coincidence with the overpasses of the CALIOP lidar on the CALIPSO satellite. First we demonstrate that both lidars observe essentially the same thing, in terms of detection and composition of the PSCs. Then we use both datasets to study seasonal and interannual variations in the formation temperature of NAT mixtures.