A 14-year monthly climatology and trend in the 35-65 km altitude range from Rayleigh Lidar temperature measurements at a low latitude station

Details A 14-year monthly climatology and trend in the 35-65 km altitude range from Rayleigh Lidar temperature measurements at a low latitude station A 14-year monthly climatology and trend in the 35-65 km altitude range from Rayleigh Lidar temperature measurements at a low latitude station

Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jastp..71.1456b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 71, Issue 13, p. 1456-1462.

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Rayleigh Lidar, Temperature Trend, Temperature Climatology, Lidar

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A sodium resonance lidar at 589 nm has been operated in São José dos Campos, Brazil (23°S, 46°W) since 1972 mainly for studies related to the origin, chemistry and dynamics of the mesospheric sodium layer. Beginning in 1993, the improved laser capability has also enabled the processing of the Rayleigh signal from which the temperatures from ~35 to ~65 km are retrieved on a nightly mean basis. We used these nightly profiles to determine the monthly temperature profiles from 1993 to 2006. The mean temperature characteristics for each year and for the whole period are obtained. Seasonal thermal amplitude is small (6 K peak to peak at 40 and 60 km). Compared with the MSISE-90 model, a large difference is noted, with temperature lower than the model below the stratopause and higher above. Also the seasonal variation has a large difference with better agreement occurring around local winter, but with temperatures higher by ~8-10 K at the equinoxes. The semiannual component is dominant over the annual at all altitudes. Linear trends with decreasing temperature of 1.09, 2.29 and 1.42 K/decade are observed at 40, 50 and 60 km, respectively.

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