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Articles | Volume 38, issue 1
Articles | Volume 38, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-61-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-61-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 38, issue 1
Regular paper
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16 Jan 2020
Regular paper |  | 16 Jan 2020

Stratospheric observations of noctilucent clouds: a new approach in studying middle- and large-scale mesospheric dynamics

Peter Dalin, Nikolay Pertsev, Vladimir Perminov, Denis Efremov, and Vitaly Romejko

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A unique stratospheric balloon-borne observation of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) was performed at night on 5–6 July 2018. A sounding balloon, carrying the NLC camera, reached 20.4 km altitude. NLCs were observed from the stratosphere at large scales (100–1500 km) for the first time. Propagations of gravity waves of various scales were registered. This experiment is rather simple and can be reproduced by the broad geoscience community and amateurs, providing a new technique in NLC observations.
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