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Investigating Gravity Waves In Polar Mesospheric Clouds Using Tomographic Reconstructions Of Aim Satellite Imagery, V. P. Hart, M. J. Taylor, T. E. Doyle, Yucheng Zhao, Pierre-Dominique Pautet, B. L. Carruth, D. W. Rusch, J. M. Russell Iii
Investigating Gravity Waves In Polar Mesospheric Clouds Using Tomographic Reconstructions Of Aim Satellite Imagery, V. P. Hart, M. J. Taylor, T. E. Doyle, Yucheng Zhao, Pierre-Dominique Pautet, B. L. Carruth, D. W. Rusch, J. M. Russell Iii
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This research presents the first application of tomographic techniques for investigating gravity wave structures in polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) imaged by the Cloud Imaging and Particle Size instrument on the NASA AIM satellite. Albedo data comprising consecutive PMC scenes were used to tomographically reconstruct a 3‐D layer using the Partially Constrained Algebraic Reconstruction Technique algorithm and a previously developed “fanning” technique. For this pilot study, a large region (760 × 148 km) of the PMC layer (altitude ~83 km) was sampled with a ~2 km horizontal resolution, and an intensity weighted centroid technique was developed to create novel 2‐D surface …