Physics and chemistry of the mesopause region

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Jul 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004jastp..66..839s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 66, Issue 10, p. 839-857.

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Mesopause, Photochemistry, Circulation, Energetics

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This paper is based on a tutorial presentation given at the 2001 CEDAR (Coupling Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) workshop. It gives an overview of chemical and physical processes important in the mesopause region. Topics covered include composition, photochemistry, dynamics and transport, and energy budget. Special emphasis is placed on the role of variations in composition in linking the physical and chemical processes. Examples from numerical models and observations are given to illustrate the points. Two specific cases where composition plays a role are described. The first illustrates that hemispheric differences in CO2 due to transport by the mean circulation enhance the mesopause temperature extremes near solstices. The second shows how transport of chemical species by gravity waves can alter the heating structure in such a way as to destabilize the gravity wave.

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