Mid-latitude winds in the mesosphere: a superposed epoch analysis over the geomagnetic storm times

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Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001jastp..63.1993m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 63, Issue 18, p. 1993-2001.

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This study aims at looking for the characteristic patterns of mesospheric wind over the geomagnetic storm times. For this purpose, the geomagnetic storms preceded by a sudden commencement (SSC) have been selected from January 1995 to April 1999. By using the onset of SSC as the timing mark, a superposed epoch analysis has been performed on the available neutral wind data measured with medium frequency (MF) radars at Yamagawa (31.2°N,130.6°E) and Wakkanai (45.4°N,141.7°E). In doing so, the length of time chosen for the superposed analysis is from 7 days before the SSC onset to 21 days after the onset; subsets of wind data are superimposed for summer and winter months, respectively. Then with harmonic analysis on the superposed winds the mean winds in both summer and winter months have been obtained. Concerning mean wind characteristics, some interesting details are the reversal heights of the summer zonal winds, which is 79-80km at Yamagawa and 84km at Wakkanai. Strong wavy structures with 2-4 days period are observed at both Yamagawa and Wakkanai in both summer and winter. As for storm effects, significant enhancement of eastward wind is found 5 days after SSC onset at both Yamagawa and Wakkanai in winter. Moreover, the northward wind turns southward at Wakkanai 2 days after the onset of SSC, and the southward wind lasts for several days thereafter. In summer months, the post-storm enhancement tends to be small and mainly in the eastward wind at both Yamagawa and Wakkanai.

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