to observe and quantify the dynamics of small‐scale gravity waves (GWs) and instabilities
leading to turbulence in the upper mesosphere during polar summer using instruments
aboard a stratospheric balloon. The PMC Turbo scientific payload comprised seven high‐
resolution cameras and a Rayleigh lidar. Overlapping wide and narrow camera field of
views from the balloon altitude of~ 38 km enabled resolution of features extending from~ 20 …
Abstract The Polar Mesospheric Cloud Turbulence experiment (PMC Turbo) was designed
to observe and quantify the dynamics of small-scale gravity waves (GWs) and instabilities
leading to turbulence in the upper mesosphere during polar summer using instruments
aboard a stratospheric balloon. The PMC Turbo scientific payload comprised seven high-
resolution cameras and a Rayleigh lidar. Overlapping wide and narrow camera field-of-
views from the balloon altitude of~ 38 km enabled resolution of features extending from~ 20 …