A comparison of atmospheric tides inferred from observations at the mesopause during ALOHA-93 with the model predictions of the TIME-GCM

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 103, Issue D6, 1998, Pages 6307-6321

  Hecht, J H ^a   Walterscheid, R L ^a   Roble, R G ^b   Lieberman, R S ^c   Talaat, E R ^c   Ramsay Howat, S K ^d   Lowe, R P ^e   Turnbull, D N ^e   Gardner, C S ^f   States, R ^f   Dao, P D ^g  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^g AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRGLOW; ATMOSPHERIC TIDE; GCM; LIDAR;

EID: 0039793226     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97JD03377     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Abreu, V. J., A. Bucholtz, P. B. Hays, D. A. Ortland, W. R. Skinner, and J.-H. Yee, Absorption and emission line shapes in the O2 atmospheric bands: Theoretical model and limb viewing simulations, Appl. Opt., 28, 2128-2137, 1989.
2. Akmaev, R. A., J. M. Forbes, and M. E. Hagan, Simulation of tides with a spectral mesosphere/lower thermosphere model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 2173-2176, 1996.
3. 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 the GSWM, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2641-2644, 1995.
4. Burrage, M. D., et al., Validation of mesospheric and lower thermospheric winds from the high-resolution Doppler imager, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 10,365-10,392, 1996.
5. Chapman, S., and R. S. Lindzen, Atmospheric Tides, D. Reidel, Norwell, Mass., 1970.
6. Dao, P. D., R. Farley, X. Tao, and C. S. Gardner, Lidar observations of the temperature profile between 25 and 103 km: Evidence of strong tidal perturbations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2825-2828, 1995.
7. Forbes, J. M., and D. F. Gillette, A compendium of theoretical atmospheric tidal structures, 1, Model description and explicit structures due to realistic thermal and gravitational excitation, AFGL Rep. TR-82-0173, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., 1982.
8. Forbes, J. M., and F. Vial, Monthly simulation of the solar semidiurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 51, 649-661, 1989.
9. Fritts, D. C., and W. Lu, Spectral estimates of gravity wave energy and momentum fluxes, 2, Parameterization of wave forcing and variability, J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 3695-3713, 1993.
10. Gardner, C. S., X. Tao, and G. C. Papen, Observations of strong wind shears and temperature enhancements during several sporadic Na layer events above Haleakala, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2809-2812, 1995.
11. Hagan, M. E., J. M. Forbes, and F. Vial, On modeling migrating solar tides, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 893-896, 1995.
12. Hagan, M. E., J. L. Chang, and S. K. Avery, GSWM estimates of nonmigrating tidal effects, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 16,439-16,452, 1997.
13. Hays, P. B., V. J. Abreu, M. E. Dobbs, D. A. Grell, H. J. Grassl, and W. R. Skinner, The high-resolution Doppler imager on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 10,713-10,723, 1993.
14. Hays, P. B., D. Wu, M. D. Burrage, D. A. Gell, H. J. Grassl, R. S. Lieberman, A. R. Marshall, Y. T. Morton, D. A. Ortland, and W. R. Skinner, Observations of the diurnal tide from space, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 3077-3093, 1994.
15. 2 atmospheric (0, 1) nightglow emissions from Maui during the ALOHA-90 campaign, Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 1341-1344, 1991.
16. Hecht, J. H., S. K. Ramsay Howat, R. L. Walterscheid, and J. R. Isler, Observations of variations in airglow emissions during ALOHA-93, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2817-2820, 1995.
17. Hostetler, C. A., and C. S. Gardner, Observations of horizontal and vertical wave number spectra of gravity wave motions in the stratosphere and mesosphere over the mid-Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 1283-1302, 1994.
18. Langhoff, S. R., H. J. Werner, and P. Rosmus, Theoretical transition probabilities of OH Meinel system, J. Mol. Spectrosc., 118, 507-529, 1986.
19. Lieberman, R. S., and C. B. Leovy, A numerical model of nonmigrating diurnal tides between the surface and 65 km, J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 389-409, 1995.
20. Lieberman, R. S., and D. Riggin, High-resolution Doppler imager observations of Kelvin waves in the equatorial mesosphere and lower thermosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 26,117-26,130, 1997.
21. Lowe, R. P., and D. N. Turnbull, Comparison of ALOHA-93, ANLC-93, and ALOHA-90 observations of the hydroxyl rotational temperature and gravity wave activity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2813-2816, 1995.
22. Lowe, R. P., L. M. LeBlanc, and K. L. Gilbert, WINDII/UARS observations of twilight behavior of the hydroxyl airglow at mid latitude equinox, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 58, 1863-1869, 1996.
23. 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, 1996a.
24. McLandress, C., G. G. Shepherd, B. H. Solheim, M. D. Burrage, P. B. Hays, and W. R. Skinner, Combined mesosphere/thermosphere winds using WINDII and HRDI data from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 10,441-10,453, 1996b.
25. 2Π), J. Mol. Spectrosc., 53, 150-188, 1974.
26. Moreels, R., L. Gattinger, and A. Vallance Jones, Comments on the paper: Diurnal, annual and solar cycle variations of hydroxyl and sodium nightglow intensities in the Europe-Africa sector, Planet. Space Sci., 22, 344-346, 1974.
27. Morton, Y. T., R. S. Lieberman, P. B. Hays, D. A. Ortland, A. R. Marshall, D. Wu, W. R. Skinner, M. D. Burrage, D. A. Gell, and J.-H. Yee, Global mesospheric tidal winds observed by the high-resolution Doppler imager on board the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 1263-1266, 1993.
28. Mountain, C. M., D. J. Robertson, T. J. Lee, and R. Wade, An advanced cooled grating spectrometer for UKIRT, Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 1235, 25-33, 1990.
29. Ortland, D. A., P. B. Hays, W. R. Skinner, and J.-H. Yee, Remote sensing of mesospheric temperature and O2(1 sigma) band volume emission rates with the high-resolution Doppler imager, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 1821-1835, 1998.
30. Ramsay, S. K., C. M. Mountain, and T. Geballe, Non-thermal emission in the atmosphere above Mauna Kea, MNRAS, 259, 751-760, 1992.
31. Roble, R. G., and E. C. Ridley, A thermosphere ionosphere mesosphere electrodynamics general circulation model (TIME-GCM): Equinox solar cycle minimum simulation (30-500 km), Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 417-420, 1994.
32. Shepherd, G. G., et al., WINDII, the wind imaging interferometer on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 10,725-10,750, 1993.
33. Tao, X., and C. S. Gardner, Heat flux observations in the mesopause region above Haleakala, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2829-2832, 1995.
34. 2Π), J. Chem. Phys., 89, 2763-2767, 1988.
35. Turnbull, D. N., and R. P. Lowe, New hydroxyl transition probabilities and their importance in airglow studies, Planet. Space Sci., 37, 723-738, 1989.
36. Williams, C. R., Analysis of deep convective clouds and their association with nonmigrating atmospheric diurnal tides in the tropical tropopause, Ph.D. thesis, 194 pp., Univ. of Colo., Boulder, 1994.
37. Williams, C. R., and S. K. Avery, Nonmigrating tides forced by deep convection, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 4079-4091, 1996.