A report on long-term trends and variabilities in middle atmospheric temperature over Gadanki (13.5°N, 79.2°E)

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Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jastp..71.1463s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 71, Issue 13, p. 1463-1470.

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Long-Term Trends, Temperature, Semiannual Oscillation, Solar Cycle, Middle Atmosphere, Rayleigh Lidar

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The present study reports long-term variabilities and trends in the middle atmospheric temperature (March 1998-2008) derived from Rayleigh backscattered signals received by the Nd:YAG lidar system at Gadanki (13.5°N, 79.2°E). The monthly mean temperature compositely averaged for the years 1998-2008 shows maximum temperature of 270 K in the months of March-April and September at altitudes between ~45 and 55 km. The altitude profile of trend coefficients estimated from the 10 years of temperature observations using regression analysis shows that there exists cooling at the rate with 1[sigma] uncertainty of 0.12±0.1 K/year in the lower stratospheric altitudes (35-42 km) and 0.2±0.08 K/year at altitudes near 55-60 km. The trend is nearly zero (no significant cooling or warming) at altitudes 40-55 km. The regression analysis reveals the significant ENSO response in the lower stratosphere (1 K/SOI) and also in mesosphere (0.6 K/SOI). The solar cycle response shows negative maxima of ~1.5 K/100F10.7 units at altitudes 36 km, 41 km and 1 K/100F10.7 units at 57 km. The response is positive at mesospheric altitude near 67 km (1.3 K/100F10.7 units). The amplitudes and phases of semiannual, annual and quasi-biennial oscillations are estimated using least squares method. The semiannual oscillation shows larger amplitudes at altitudes near 35, 45, 62 and 74 km whereas the annual oscillation peaks at 70 km. The quasi-biennial oscillations show larger amplitudes below 35 km and above 70 km. The phase profiles of semiannual and annual oscillations show downward propagation.

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