A radiative feedback from an interactive polar mesospheric cloud parameterization in a two dimensional model

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2383-2387

  Siskind, David E ^a   Stevens, M H ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesospheric model; Ozone chemistry; Polar mesospheric clouds

Indexed keywords

ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MESOSPHERIC MODELS; OZONE CHEMISTRY; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS;

OZONE LAYER;

EID: 33751002941     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.094     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Bailey, S.M., Merkel, A.W., Thomas, G.E., Carstens, J.N. Observations of polar mesospheric clouds by the student nitric oxide explorer. J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2005
2. Chu X., et al. Lidar observations of polar mesospheric clouds at Rothera, Antarctica (67.5S, 68.0W). Geophys. Res. Lett. 31 (2004) L02114 10.1029/2003GL018638
3. Espy P.J., and Jutt H. Equilibrium temperature of water-ice aerosols in the high-latitude summer mesosphere. J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Res. 64 (2002) 1823-1832
4. Garcia R.R. Dynamics, radiation and photochemistry in the mesosphere: implications for the formation of noctilucent clouds. J. Geophys. Res. 94 (1989) 14,605-14,615
5. Hervig M., McHugh M., and Summers M.E. Water vapor enhancement in the polar summer mesosphere and its relationship to polar mesospheric clouds. Geophys. Res. Lett. 30 (2003) 2041 10.1029/2003GL018089
6. Keesee R.G. Nuclation and particle formation in the upper atmosphere. J. Geophys. Res. D12 (1989) 14683-14692
7. Lübken F.-J., Jarvis M.J., and Jones G.O.L. First in situ temperature measurements at the Antarctic summer mesopause. Geophys. Res. Lett. 26 (1999) 3581-3584
8. Marsh D., Smith A., and Noble E. Mesospheric ozone response to changes in water vapor. J. Geophys. Res. 108 D3 (2003) 4109 10.1029/2002JD002705
9. Reid G.C. Ice clouds at the summer polar mesopause. J. Atmos. Sci. 32 (1975) 523-535
10. Siskind, D.E. On the coupling between middle and upper atmospheric nitric oxide. Atmospheric Sciences Across the Stratopause, AGU Monograph, 342 pp., 2000
11. Siskind D.E., et al. Hemispheric differences in the temperature of the summertime stratosphere and mesosphere. J. Geophys. Res. 108 (2003) 4051 10.1029/2002JD002095
12. Siskind D.E., Stevens M.H., and Englert C.R. A model study of global variability in mesospheric cloudiness. J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Res. 67 (2005) 501-513
13. Stevens M.H., et al. The polar mesospehric cloud mass in the Arctic summer. J. Geophys. Res. 110 (2005) A02306 10.1029/2004JA010566
14. Thomas G.E. Mesospheric clouds and the physics of the mesopause region. Rev. Geophys. 29 (1991) 553-575
15. von Zahn U., and Berger U. Persistent ice cloud in the midsummer upper mesosphere at high latitudes: three-dimensional modeling and cloud interaction with ambient water vapor. J. Geophys. Res. 108 D8 (2003) 8451 10.1029/2002JD002409