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1、JOURNALOFGEOPHYSICALRESEARCH,VOL.102,NO.D19,PAGES23,659-23,672,OCTOBER20,1997ObservationsofAntarcticpolarstratosphericcloudsbyPOAMII:1994-1996MichaelD.FrommandJerryD.LumpeComputationalPhysics,Inc.,Fairfax,VirginiaRichardM.Bevilacqua,EricP.Shettle,andJohnHornsteinRemote
2、SensingDivision,NavalResearchLaboratory,Washington,D.C.StevenT.MassieNationalCenterforAtmosphericResearch,Boulder,ColoradoK.H.FrickePhysikalischesInstitutderUniversit/it,Bonn,GermanyAbstract.ThePolarOzoneandAerosolMeasurement(POAM)IIsolaroccultationinstrumenthasmadeext
3、ensivemeasurementsofpolarstratoSphe.ricclouds(PSCs)sincelaunchinSeptember1993.InapolarorbitsimilartothatoftheStratosphericAerosolMeasurement(SAM)IIexperimentbutmeasuringtowithin2'latitudeofthesouthpole,POAMIIobservationsofPSCsprovideavaluablegeographicandtemporalextens
4、ionoftheSAMIIPSCclimatology.TheclouddetectionalgorithmusedtoidentifyPSCsfromPOAMIImeasurementsisdescribed.POAMIIPSCdataarealsoexaminedincompari-sonwithcoincidentlidarPSCobservations.Resultsfromthe1994to1996Antarcticfall/winter/springseasonsarepresentedandrelatedqualita
5、tivelytotheSAM!IPSCclimatology.ThefrequencyofPSCoccurrenceincreasesduringtheAntarcticwinter,reachingamaximumofabout71%ofallPOAMIImeasurementsinAugust.Thereisastronglongitudinalvariationinthecloudfrequency,whichiscloselyrelatedtolongitudi-naltemperaturepatterns.Abroadmi
6、nimuminPSCfrequencyiscenteredneartheinternationaldatelineandabroadmaximumiscenteredabout315øE,intheleeoftheAntarcticPeninsula,wherethePSCfrequencyisabouttwicethatneartheminimum.InMay,PSCsareobservedatanaveragealtitudeof24km,withthealtitudesmovingdownwardasthealtitudeof
7、thecoldestairdescendswithinthepolarvortexduringthewinter.ByOctobertheaveragePSCaltitudeis17km.1.IntroductionchangesintheNimbus7orbit,theSAMIIinstrumentwasturnedoffinJanuary1994,endingthisuniquedatarecord.DuringthepastdecadeithasbeenfirmlyestablishedthatInSeptember1993t
8、heNavalResearchLaboratory'sPolarpolarstratosphericclouds(PSCs)playanintegralroleinOzoneandAerosolMeasurement(POAM)IIw