Mission: PMC-TURBO
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Description

Full mission name: Polar Mesospheric Clouds TURBO

Description:

PMC Turbo was a long-duration balloon mission of NASA's summer 2018 balloon programme. PMC Turbo was dedicated to the study of noctilucent clouds or polar mesosheric clouds by camera and Rayleigh lidar from a balloon-borne platform. PMC Turbo floated from Kiruna, Sweden to western Nunavut, Canada during almost six days at 39 km altitude. Seven cameras provided high-resolution NLC imagery, and the BOLIDE lidar high-resolution vertical soundings of the mesospheric ice layers as well as atmospheric density and gravity waves above the balloons floating altitude.

This page provides datasets for the following publications:

• Fritts et al., PMC Turbo: Studying Gravity Wave and Instability Dynamics in the Summer Mesosphere using Polar Mesospheric Cloud Imaging and Profiling from a Stratospheric Balloon, JGR, 2019 (in ''Available Datasets'')

• Kjellstrand et al., Multi-Scale Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability Dynamics Observed by PMC Turbo on 12 July 2018: 1. Secondary Instabilities and Billow Interactions, in review for JGR, 2022: Figures as png, raw image data, video 1, video 2, video 3, video 4, lidar netcf data (Fig. 3) below.

• Fritts et al., Mesospheric Bore Evolution and Instability Dynamics Observed in PMC Turbo Imaging and Rayleigh Lidar Profiling over Northeastern Canada on 13 July 2018 (Fig. 2 and 4 in ''Available Datasets'', video 1, video 2

• Kaifler et al., A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment BOLIDE, Atm. Meas. Techn., 2020

BOLIDE data is also available from NASA Space Physics Data Facility (select PMC Turbo), and from [Zenodo] (https://zenodo.org/record/5722385). This dataset is described in

• Kaifler et al., The polar mesospheric cloud dataset of the Balloon Lidar Experiment BOLIDE, Earth System Science Data, in preparation.

Map of the measuring area

Data Protocol

No Data Protocol available.

Mission Info

• Start: 2018-07-08
• Stop: 2018-07-14
• Region:
  • Europe › Sweden
• Begin free data access: 2018-12-31
• Website: pa.op.dlr.de/ma-lidar/bolide

Data Origin

Genesis of the data (see glossary).

Instruments

1. Platform Long-duration balloon
   • Instrument Balloon Lidar Experiment
   • Instrument not specified.
   • Instrument Polar Mesospheric Cloud Turbulence Experiment cameras

Models

1. Model type GCM
   • Model ECMWF IFS

Available datasets