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Polar Stratospheric Clouds by IFE/IUP Bremen
(last update: 1 April 2010)
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| available data |
Daily maps of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are available on the IUP/Bremen's SCIAMACHY data archive. The maps are available for both hemispheres during the corresponding PSC seasons. |
| point of contact |
Christian von Savigny |
| algorithm description |
The PSCs are detected using a colour-index method applied to SCIAMACHY limb scattering that has recently been demonstrated to yield reliable PSC detections (von Savigny et al., ACP, 2005 ). The PSC observations are limited to the sunlit part of the Earth.
More details can be found in the Algorithm Description document. |
| product details |
Please note that spurious PSC detections cannot be entirely excluded, and we ask you to kindly inform us about apparent outliers and other problems you may find in the PSC maps. Presently, PSCs are only detected and no distinction between different PSC types is performed. This is the topic of continuing work. Please note that the apparent occurrence of detected PSCs at temperatures above 195 K is in almost all the cases due to the fact that the temperature contours are not shown at the PSC altitude, but at the 525 potential temperature level.
More details can be found in the Product Specification document. |
| validation results |
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SCIAMACHY Polar Stratospheric clouds (IFE) validation literature:
| There is no validation literature for psc from IFE in the database yet |
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