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Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-949-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-949-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
Research article
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19 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 19 Jan 2023

Signatures of gravity wave-induced instabilities in balloon lidar soundings of polar mesospheric clouds

Natalie Kaifler, Bernd Kaifler, Markus Rapp, and David C. Fritts

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We used a lidar to measure polar mesospheric clouds from a balloon floating in the upper stratosphere. The thin-layered ice clouds at 83 km altitude are perturbed by waves. The high-resolution lidar soundings reveal small-scale structures induced by the breaking of those waves. We study these patterns and find that they occur very often. We show their morphology and discuss associated dynamical physical processes, which help to interpret case studies and to guide modelling.
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