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PERTINENT to the question of the existence of haze and water vapour in the stratosphere1,2 was the detection of a nacreous cloud at 25 km over New Mexico on June 20, 1974. This occurred just before the volcanic dust incursion from Fuego in November, 1974 (ref. 3), during a high altitude balloon experiment in which a large polar nephelometer was used to measure the optical angular-scattering characteristics of atmospheric aerosols4.
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GIBSON, F. A rare event in the stratosphere. Nature 263, 487–488 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/263487a0
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