Long-term changes of (polar) mesosphere summer echoes

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Oct 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jastp..71.1571b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 71, Issue 14-15, p. 1571-1576.

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Vhf Radar Echoes, Mesosphere, Polar And Middle Latitudes, Solar And Geomagnetic Activity, Noctilucent Clouds, Polar Mesospheric Clouds

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Strong VHF radar echoes have been observed not only during summer months at polar latitudes (polar mesosphere summer echoes, PMSE) but also at middle latitudes (mesosphere summer echoes, MSE). These echoes are closely connected with small ice particles, thus containing information about mesospheric temperature and water vapour content. But the (P)MSE also depend on the ionisation due to solar wave radiation and precipitating high energetic particles. Observations with VHF radars at Andenes (69.3°N; 16.0°E) since 1994 and at Kühlungsborn (54.6°N; 11.8°E) since 1998 are used for investigations of the solar and geomagnetic control of the (P)MSE as well as of possible long-term changes. The (P)MSE are positively correlated with the solar Lyman [alpha] radiation and the geomagnetic activity and have slightly positive trends. Due to the limited measuring period, the significance levels of the detected (P)MSE trends are small. Positive trends in noctilucent clouds (NLC) and polar mesospheric clouds (PMC) are in general agreement with (P)MSE trends.

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