Quasi-Stationary Zonally Asymmetric Circulations in the Equatorial Lower Mesosphere.

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Aug 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jats...44.2219h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 44, Issue 16, pp.2219-2236

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60

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Data from the Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) are used to identify a new type of planetary scale disturbance in the equatorial lower mesosphere during northern winter 1978/79. The disturbances consist of two or three vertically stacked temperature extrema of alternating sign. They persist for as long as two weeks and do not propagate. Their occurrence is confined to regions of very weak or negative inertial stability, and their meridional to vertical aspect ratio, meridional structure and zonal spectrum are consistent with disturbances predicted by inertial instability theory. However, they are found only when there is strong forcing of the subtropical mesosphere by zonal wavenumber one and two Rossby waves. This fact, together with the absence of zonal propagation, suggests that stationary Rossby waves determine their occurrence and longitudinal structure. These structures can significantly modify the zonal mean flow and should be taken into account in dynamical models of the equatorial mesosphere.

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