Abstract
Relatively little is known about polar cloud radiative properties. The region as a whole represents one of the few remaining global frontiers in atmospheric research. Polar cloud retrievals using infrared satellite observations have proven difficult as the snow covered terrain is typically as cold as the clouds above it. Ground based instruments are limited by arduous operating conditions, dictated both by the ambient environment and the logistics of simply deploying the systems to the area. There is also the inherent sensitivity issue faced by all passive instrumentation to optically thin ice cloud layers which are frequently present given temperatures throughout the polar troposphere.
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