Numerical modelling of the thermospheric heat budget

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Jun 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87.4504g&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, June 1, 1982, p. 4504-4514.

Physics

80

Atmospheric Heat Budget, Atmospheric Models, Molecular Collisions, Thermosphere, Atmospheric Heating, Carbon Dioxide, Mathematical Models, Nitric Oxide, Ozone, Radiant Cooling, Turbulent Heat Transfer, Vertical Distribution, Vortices

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Numerical models of the thermal budget of the earth's upper atmosphere in the height range of 90-500 km are developed. The main sources and sinks of energy, including infrared radiative cooling in vibrational-rotational bands of NO, CO2, OH, and O3 as well as heating and cooling arising from dissipation of turbulent energy and eddy heat transport, are taken into account. The calculated temperature and density height profiles are in good agreement with the respective profiles from the Cira (1972) and Jacchia (1977) models. It is found that thermal collisions between CO2 and atomic oxygen play an important role in the formation of the lower thermospheric 15 micron radiation. It is also found that the maximum value of the time average eddy diffusion coefficient in the thermosphere cannot exceed 3,000,000 sq cm/sec. The calculations show that for the statistically average thermospheric condition infrared radiative cooling by CO2 and NO in the 15 micron and 5.3 micron bands, but not eddy turbulence or molecular conduction provides the major loss of heat in the height range of 90-180 km.

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