Rayleigh lidar observations of a mesospheric inversion layer during night and day

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Publishing date

Sep 2001

URL

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.3597d&link_type=abstract

Journals

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 18, p. 3597-3600

Science

Physics

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Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Mesospheric Dynamics, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Middle Atmosphere Dynamics, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote Sensing, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Waves And Tides

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Scientific paper

Abstract

A narrow field of view Rayleigh lidar has been constructed at Millstone Hill/MIT Haystack Observatory (42.6°N, 71.5°W) for observations of middle atmospheric temperatures throughout the diurnal cycle. During a 31.5 h measurement on 19-21 March 2001 a mesospheric thermal inversion layer was observed in both the night and day. It developed near 60 km in altitude, progressed downward at 0.40+/-0.06km/h, and had an overlying adiabatic lapse rate. The inversion amplitude correlated with the evolution of stratospheric gravity wave activity, although the mesospheric perturbations were too large to be due to conservative gravity-wave growth alone. The 24 h mean temperature profile shows no evidence of a residual inversion layer.

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