Planetary scale and tidal perturbations in mesospheric temperature observed by WINDII

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 51, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 593-610

  Shepherd, M G ^a,b   Ward, W E ^b   Prawirosoehardjo, B ^a,b   Roble, R G ^c   Zhang, S P ^a,b   Wang, D Y ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TIDE; MESOSPHERE; SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 0033390037     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353218     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Akmaev, R. A., V. A. Yudin, and D. A. Ortland, SMLTM simulations of the diurnal tide: comparison with UARS observations, Ann. Geophysicae, 15, 1187-1197, 1997.
2. Burrage, M. D., M. E. Hagan, W. R. Skinner, D. L. Wu, and P. B. Hays, Long-term variability in the solar diurnal tide observed by HRDI and simulated by GSWM, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2641-2644, 1995.
3. Chahine, M., Generalization of the relaxation Method for the Inverse Solution of Nonlinear and Linear Transfer Equations, in Inversion Methods in Atmospheric Remote Sounding, edited by A. Deepak, Academic Press, pp. 67-116, 1977.
4. Clancy, R. T. and D. W. Rusch, Climatology and trends of mesospheric (58-90 km) temperatures based upon 1982-1986 SME limb scattering profiles, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3377-3393, 1989.
5. Clancy, R. T., D. W. Rusch, and M. T. Callan, Temperature minima in the average thermal structure of the middle mesosphere (70-80 km) from analysis of 40-to 92-km SME global temperature profiles, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 19,001-19,020, 1994.
6. Clark, R. R., A. C. Current, A. H. Manson, C. E. Meek, S. K. Avery, S. E. Palo, and T. Aso, Hemispheric properties of the two-day wave from mesosphere-lower-thermosphere radar observations, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 56, 1276-1288, 1994.
7. Crary, D. J. and J. M. Forbes, On the extraction of tidal information from measurements covering a fraction of a day, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10, 580-582, 1982.
8. Dudhia, A., S. E. Smith, A. R. Wood, and F. W. Taylor, Diurnal and semidiurnal temperature variability of the middle atmosphere, as observed by ISAMS, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 1251-1254, 1993.
9. Forbes, J. M., Atmospheric tides 1. Model description and results of the solar diurnal component, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 5222-5240, 1982.
10. Forbes J. M., Tidal and planetary waves, in The Upper Mesosphere and lower thermopshere: A review of experiment and theory. Geophysical Monograph 87, edited by R. M. Johnson and T. L. Killeen, pp. 67-87, AGU, Washington D.C., 1995.
11. Forbes, J. M., M. Kilpatrick, D. Fritts, A. H. Manson, and R. A. Vincent, Zonal mean and tidal dynamics from space: an empirical examination of aliasing and sampling issues, Ann. Geophysicae, 15, 1158-1164, 1997.
12. Hagan, M. E., J. M. Forbes, and F. Vial, Numerical investigations of the propagation of the quasi-two-day wave into the lower thermosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 23, 193-23, 205, 1993.
13. Hagan, M. E., J. M. Forbes, and F. Vial, On modeling migrating solar tides, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 893-896, 1995.
14. Hagan, M. E., C. McLandress, and J. M. Forbes, Diurnal tidal variability in the upper mesosphere and the lower thermosphere, Ann. Geophysicae, 15, 1176-1186, 1997.
15. Harris, T. J., A long-term study of the quasi-two-day wave in the middle atmosphere, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 56, 569-579, 1994.
16. Hays, P. B., D. L. Wu, and the HRDI Science Team, Observations of the diurnal tide from space, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 51, 3077-3093, 1994.
17. Hecht, J. H., R. L. Waltersheid, R. G. Roble, R. S. Lieberman, E. R. Talaat, S. K. Ramsay Howat, R. P. Lowe, D. N. Turnbull, C. S. Gardner, R. States, and P. D. Dao, A comparison of atmospheric tides inferred from observations at the mesopause during ALOHA-93 with the model predictions of the TIME-GCM, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 6307-6321, 1998.
18. Hitchman, M. H. and C. B. Leovy, Diurnal tide in the equatorial middle atmosphere as seen in LIMS temperatures, J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 557-561, 1985.
19. Liebermann, R. S., Nonmigrating diurnal tides in the equatorial middle atmosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 1112-1123, 1991.
20. McLandress, C., Y. Rochon, G. G. Shepherd, B. H. Solheim, G. Thuillier, and F. Vial, The meridional wind component of the thermospheric tide observed by WINDII on UARS, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2417-2420, 1994.
21. McLandress, C., G. G. Shepherd, and B. H. Solheim, Satellite observations of thermospheric tides: Results from the Wind Imaging Interferometer on UARS, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 4093-4114, 1996.
22. Meek, C. E., A. H. Manson, S. J. Franke, W. Singer, P. Hoffmann, R. R. Clark, T. Tsuda, T. Nakamura, M. Tsutsumi, M. Hagan, D. C. Fritts, J. Isler, and Yu. I. Portnyagin, Global study of northern hemisphere quasi 2-day wave events in the summers of 1992 and 1991, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 58, 1401-1412, 1996.
23. Meyer, C. K., Gravity wave interactions with mesospheric planetary waves: a mechanism for penetration into the Termosphere-Ionosphere System, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 1999.
24. Palo, S. E., M. E. Hagan, C. E. Meek, R. A. Vincent, M. D. Burrage, C. McLandress, S. J. Franke, W. E. Ward, R. R. Clark, P. Hoffmann, R. Johnson, D. Kurschner, A. H. Manson, D. Murphy, T. Nakamura, Yu. I. Portnyagin, J. E. Salah, R. Schminder, W. Singer, T. Tsuda, T. S. Virdi, and Q. Zhou, An intercomparison between the GSWM, UARS, and ground based radar observations: a case-study in January 1993, Ann. Geophysicae, 15, 1123-1141, 1997.
25. Reber, C. A., C. E. Trevathan, R. J. McNeal, and M. R. Luther, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) mission. J. Geophys. Res., 98, 10,643-10,647, 1993.
26. Roble, R. G. and E. C. Ridley, A thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere electrodynamics general circulation model (TIME-GCM): Equinox solar cycle minimum simulations (30-500 km), Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 417-420, 1994.
27. 1S) equatorial emission rates using the thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere-electrodynamics general circulation model, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 2467-2474, 1997.
28. Rodger, C. D. and A. J. Prata, Evidence for a travelling two-day wave in the middle atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 9661-9664, 1981.
29. Shepherd, G. G., G. Thuillier, W. A. Gault, B. H. Solheim, C. Hersom, J. M. Alunni, J.-F. Brun, S. Brune, P. Charlot, L. L. Cogger, D.-L. Desaulnier, W. F. E. Evans, R. L. Gattinger, F. Girod, D. Harvie, R. H. Hum, D. J. W. Kendal, E. L. Llewellin, R. P. Lowe, J. Ohrt, F. Pasternako, O. Peilet, I. Powell, Y. Rochon, W. E. Ward, R. H. Wiens, and J. Wimpens, WINDII, the wind imaging interferometer on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 10,725-10,750, 1993a.
30. Shepherd, G. G., G. Thuillier, B. H. Solheim, S. Changra, L. L. Cogger, M. L. Duboin, W. F. J. Evans, R. L. Gattinger, W. A. Gault, M. Herse, A. Hauchecorne, C. Lathuilliere, E. J. Llewellyn, R. P. Lowe, H. Teitelbaum, and F. Vial, Latitudinal structure in atomic oxygen concentrations observed with WINDII on UARS, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20 1303-1306, 1993b.
31. Shepherd, G. G., R. G. Roble, S.-P. Zhang, C. McLandress, and R. H. Wiens, Tidal influence on midlatitude airglow: Comparison of satellite and ground-based observations with TIME-GCM predictions, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 14,741-14,751, 1998.
32. Shepherd, M. G., A. Dudhia, M. Lopez-Puertas, and W. F. J. Evans, Upper mesosphere temperatures in summer: WINDII observations and comparisons, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 357-360, 1997.
33. States, R. J and C. S. Gardner, Influence of the diurnal tide and thermospheric heat sources on the formation of mesospheric temperature inversion layers, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1483-1486, 1998.
34. Twomey, S., Introduction to the Mathematics of Inversion in Remote Sensing and Indirect Measurements, 243 pp., Development of Geomathematics, 3. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1977.
35. Wang, D. Y., C. McLandress, E. L. Fleming, W. E. Ward, B. Solheim, and G. G. Shepherd. Empirical model of 90-120 km horizontal winds from wind-imaging interferometer green line measurements in 1992-1993, J. Geophys. Res., 24, 1,127-1,130, 1997.
36. Ward, W. E., Tidal mechanisms of dynamical influence on oxygen recombination airglow in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, Adv. Space Res., 21(6), 795-805, 1998.
37. Ward, W. E., D. Y. Wang, B. H. Solheim, and G. G. Shepherd, Observations of the two-day wave in WINDII data during January 1993, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 2923-2926, 1996.
38. Ward, W. E., B. H. Solheim, and G. G. Shepherd, Two day wave induced variations in the oxygen green line volume emission rate: WINDII observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1127-1130, 1997.
39. Ward, W. E , J. Oberheide, M. Riese, P. Preusse, and D. Offermann, Tidal signatures in temperature data from the CRISTA I mission, J. Geophys. Res., submitted, June, 1998.
40. 2 Nightglow over Bear Lake Observatory, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2637-2640, 1995.
41. Wu, D. L., A study of the diurnal tide and the two-day wave with the High Resolution Doppler Imager (HRDI), Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan, 201 pp., 1994.
42. Wu, D. L., P. B. Hays, W. R. Skinner, A. R. Marshall, M. D. Burrage, R. S. Lieberman, and D. A. Ortland, Observations of the quasi-2-day wave from the High Resolution Doppler Imager on UARS, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 2853-2856, 1993.
43. Wu, D. L., P. B. Hays, and W. R. Skinner, A least squares method for spectral analysis of space-time series, J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 3501-3511, 1995.
44. Wu, D. L., E. F. Fishbein, W. G. Read, and J. W. Waters, Excitation and evolution of the quasi-2-day wave observed in UARS/MLS temperature measurements, J. Almos. Sci., 53, 728-738, 1996.
45. Yu, J., R. States, S. J. Franke, C. S. Gardner, and M. Hagan, Observations of tidal temperature and wind perturbations in the mesopause region above Urbana, IL (40°N, 88°W), Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1207-1210, 1997.
46. Yudin, V. A., B. V. Khattatov, M. A. Geller, D. A. Ortland, C. McLandress, and G. G. Shepherd, Thermal tides and studies to tune the mechanistic tidal model using UARS observations, Ann. Geophysicae, 15, 1205-1220, 1997.
47. 1S) at low latitudes from WINDII observations, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 6251-6259, 1998.