Modeling the temperature of the polar mesopause region: Part II—Intra-seasonal monthly oscillations

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Mar 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jastp..71..508m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 71, Issue 3-4, p. 508-517.

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Intra-Seasonal Oscillations (Iso), Polar Mesospheric Clouds (Pmc), Middle Atmosphere Dynamics, Theoretical Modeling, Wave Interactions

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Measurements show that the polar mesospheric clouds (PMC) can vary, in the zonal mean, with periods around 1 month [Bailey et al., 2005. Observations of polar mesospheric clouds by the Student Nitric Oxide Explorer. J. Geophys. Res. 110, D13203, doi:10.1029/2004JD005422]. This observation has been the impetus for the present paper, where we describe corresponding temperature oscillations generated by the Numerical Spectral Model (NSM). Our numerical results are taken from the 3D and 2D versions of the NSM, which produce inter-annual and long-term variations in the polar mesopause region, as discussed in the accompanying paper (Part I). In the NSM, the intra-seasonal temperature variations with periods around 2 months are generated by the meridional winds that in turn are accelerated by the momentum deposition from small-scale gravity waves (GW) propagating north/south. The wave-driven dynamical process underlying the oscillations is intrinsically non-linear like that generating the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO). Our analysis demonstrates that the seasonal annual and semi-annual variations excite the oscillation frequencies through non-linear cascading.

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