NLC Project (Noctilucent Clouds)
thanks to Alberta's Rapid Access Cloud from Cybera, hello mesopause!
The project goal: to develop some NLC planning and viewing tools, and take first steps to modelling these beautiful clouds at the edge of space.Ideas welcome!
Timetable of NLC and solar altitudes
Apparent Cloud Motion schematics
Annual Viewing Graph:
Clear tropospheric skies and good observing,
Alister.
References and Acknowledgments
Correlating weather model output with NLC (2015-2016). Thanks to Peter Dalin and the IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics for hosting.