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ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2018, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 283-294

Influence of meteorological disturbances in February-March 2016 on the state of the upper neutral atmosphere and ionosphere over Eastern Siberia

I.V. Medvedeva 1 , K.G. Ratovsky 1 
1 Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Accepted: 31.07.2018
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2018-15-4-283-294
The results of studying the state of the neutral upper atmosphere and the ionosphere over the Eastern Siberia in February-March 2016 are presented. In that time interval, over the Northern Hemisphere two sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events were observed: minor SSW in early February and final stratospheric warming in early March, 2016. The data from spectrometric measurements of OH(6-2), 834.0 nm, and O2(0-1), 864.5 nm, emissions from the Geophysical Observatory at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS (51.8° N, 103.1° E, Tory) were used. The vertical sounding data on the peak electron density (NmF2), and on the peak height (hmF2) were also analyzed. These data were obtained with the DPS-4 Irkutsk ionosonde (52.3° N, 104.3° E). For the analysis, we also used the MLS Aura satellite data of vertical temperature profiles and the MERRA reanalysis data.
We found that both analyzed SSWs significantly affected the mesosphere-low thermosphere (MLT) and the ionospheric F2-region. At the MLT heights a significant increase in the OH and O2 emission intensities, a decrease in the atmosphere temperature, and an increase in wave activity were observed. In the F2-region we revealed significant (up to ~80 %) NmF2 positive disturbances in the postmidnight hours, which were not associated with geomagnetic activity variations. The observed effects can be caused by the amplification of the wave activity and the enhancement of vertical motion in the atmosphere during the SSWs.
Keywords: sudden stratospheric warming, atmosphere, ionosphere, hydroxyl airglow, MLT, peak electron density, atmosphere-ionosphere coupling
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