Five-years Altitude Statistics of Noctilucent Clouds Based on Multi-Site Wide-Field Camera Survey
Abstract
The results of simultaneous measurements of noctilucent clouds (NLC) position in a number of ground-based locations are presented. Observational data of 14 bright NLC events over 5 years is used for building the altitude maps of cloud fields using triangulation technique updated for multi-location case. Statistical distribution of NLC altitude and its change during the summer season is considered. Mean NLC altitudes are compared with colorimetric technique based on the same data and simple radiation transfer model. This can be used to check the model and estimate the accuracy of single-camera technique of NLC altitude measurements. Results and methods are suggested for net ground-based survey of noctilucent clouds.
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@article{arxiv.2412.04951,
title = {Five-years Altitude Statistics of Noctilucent Clouds Based on Multi-Site Wide-Field Camera Survey},
author = {Oleg S. Ugolnikov and Nikolay N. Pertsev and Vladimir I. Perminov and Ilya S. Yankovsky and Dmitry N. Aleshin and Ekaterina N. Tipikina and Alexander A. Ilyukhin and Egor O. Ugolnikov and Stanislav A. Korotkiy and Olga Yu. Golubeva and Andrey M. Tatarnikov and Sergey G. Zheltoukhov and Alexey V. Popov and Alexey M. Sushkov and Egor A. Volkov and Natalya S. Krapkina and Damir I. Yalyshev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04951},
year = {2024}
}
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13 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics