Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990jgr....9512235g&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, Aug. 1, 1990, p. 12235-12242. Research supported by FNRS.
Physics
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E Region, Nitric Oxide, Solar Cycles, Solstices, Spatial Distribution, Thermosphere, Eddy Currents, Oxygen Atoms, Solar Activity, Solar Mesosphere Explorer, Transport Properties, Two Dimensional Models
Scientific paper
A coupled, two-dimensional, chemical-diffusive model of the thermosphere is used to study the role of solar activity in the global distribution of nitric oxide. The model calculates self-consistently the zonally averaged temperature, circulation, and composition for solstice under solar maximum and solar minimum conditions. A decrease of the NO density by a factor of three to four in the E region is predicted from solar maximum to solar minimum. It is found that the main features of the overall morphology and the changes induced by the solar cycle are well reproduced in the model, although some details are not satisfactorily predicted. The sensitivity of the NO distribution to eddy transport and to the quenching of metastable N(2D) atoms by atomic oxygen is also described.
Fesen C. G.
Gérard Jean-Claude
Rusch David W.
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