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  • Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Cloud physics and chemistry
  • Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Middle atmosphere—constituent transport and chemistry
  • Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Thermosphere—composition and chemistry
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Abstract

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 30, 1546, 4 PP., 2003
doi:10.1029/2003GL017249

Polar mesospheric clouds formed from space shuttle exhaust

Michael H. Stevens

E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA

Jörg Gumbel

Universities Space Research Association, Washington, D.C., USA

Christoph R. Englert

E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA

Klaus U. Grossmann

Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

Markus Rapp

Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics e.V., Kühlungsborn, Germany

Paul Hartogh

Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

We observe a plume of water vapor in the Arctic above 85 km and a day after an August shuttle launch. Our satellite observations reveal that a discrete region of polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) appears a week after that launch. We calculate that the water contained in the observed PMCs is consistent with the amount injected by the shuttle. This is evidence for a source of PMCs not previously considered.

Received 4 March 2003; accepted 5 May 2003; published 31 May 2003.

Citation: Stevens, M. H., J. Gumbel, C. R. Englert, K. U. Grossmann, M. Rapp, and P. Hartogh (2003), Polar mesospheric clouds formed from space shuttle exhaust, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(10), 1546, doi:10.1029/2003GL017249.

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