STUDY OF THE STRATIFICATION OF MESOSPHERIC SILVER CLOUDS (MSC) ACCORDING TO OBSERVATIONAL DATA IN 2018

Abstract

At NKSU, for many years a continuous registration of MSCs has been conducted. In this regard, each observational season, from the beginning of June to August, is organized by observation points with the maximum possible departure to the north. To study the lamination of noctilucent clouds, a specially developed program is used that allows comparing two images opened in one working window by varying the overlap area of a full image with another. By tracking the development of individual cloud forms, the program provides for the placement of vectors linking the same structure in different images, it is possible to speak with confidence about the layering of the observed cloud. This paper presents an example of processing observational material of the season of 2018, which shows the effectiveness of the proposed method for determining the layering MSC.