Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2013, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 93-100
Mesosphere-thermosphere manifestations of stratospheric warmings: joint use of satellite and ground-based measurements
N.N. Pertsev
1, A.B. Andreev
2, E.G. Merzlyakov
3, V.I. Perminov
11 Obukhov Institute for Atmospheric Physics RAS, Moscow 119017, Russia
2 Ionospheric Institute, NCSIT, National Space Agancy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty 050020, Republic of Kazakhstan
3 Institute of Experimental Meteorology, RPA “Typhoon”, Roshydromet, Obninsk 249038, Russia
The features of the behavior of the dynamics and energy in the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) during sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) are investigated on the basis of the mid-latitude ground and satellite measurements of temperature and wind around MLT for winters 2007/2008 and 2009/2010. It is shown that the temperature response of the MLT on the SSW has longitude dependence, which is due to the superposition of planetary waves with different periods. For given winters in the MLT region the founded is the relationship between the tide activity and changes in the zonal wind.
Keywords: stratospheric warming, mesopause, temperature, wind, planetary waves, tides.
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