CUPRI observations of PMSE during Salvo C of NLC-91: Evidence of a depressed mesopause temperature

Details CUPRI observations of PMSE during Salvo C of NLC-91: Evidence of a depressed mesopause temperature CUPRI observations of PMSE during Salvo C of NLC-91: Evidence of a depressed mesopause temperature

Oct 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.2295m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 20, p. 2295-2298

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Aerosols, Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Atmospheric Temperature, Charged Particles, Mesosphere, Noctilucent Clouds, Polar Regions, Radar Echoes, Radar Measurement, Radar Scattering, Sine Waves, In Situ Measurement, Interferometers, Portable Equipment, Scattering Cross Sections, Spectral Sensitivity, University Program

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The Cornell University Portable Radar Interferometer (CUPRI) observed two extremely strong layers of Polar Mesosphere Summer Mesosphere (PMSE) thirty minutes prior to the launch of Salvo C of the NLC-91 campaign. The lower layer exhibited a S/N ratio of 42 dB (the second strongest event of NLC-91), vertical velocities of a few m/s, and a narrow spectral width, suggesting that it was the result of partial reflections. The upper layer, in contrast, exhibited sinusoidal structures in vertical velocity with peak amplitudes greater than +/- 10 m/s and wide spectral widths. These structures were observed to grow and steepen with altitude until they broke and produced turbulent radar scattering. We conclude that the rapid rate of growth of hte wave with altitude was the result of a depressed mesopause temperature and a nearly adiabatic temperature gradient at PMSE heights and that the simultaneous measurement of both a low mesopause temperature and strong PMSE supports recent theories that find the presence of charged aerosols to be the key to the unique radar cross sections associated with PMSE.

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