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Scientific paper
Jun 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986thdy.work..179h&link_type=abstract
In its Thermosphere Dynamics Workshop, Volume 2 p 179-184 (SEE N86-29301 20-42)
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Atmospheric Circulation, Atmospheric Pressure, Atmospheric Temperature, Equatorial Atmosphere, Thermosphere, Dynamics Explorer Satellites, Fourier Series, Ion Density (Concentration), Night, Pressure Gradients, Solar Activity, Wind Direction, Wind Velocity
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The zonal component of the thermospheric neutral wind in the equatorial region is found to flow eastward all night, having a minimum near midnight. The data, obtained by Spencer et al. on the Dynamics Explorer-2 (DE-2) satellite, and reported more recently by Wharton et al., indicate that the minimum feature is significant. The minimum is illustrated by a 4th order Fourier series fit to the data points reported by Wharton et al. A table gives the amplitudes and phases of the four harmonic components used with the estimated error for each amplitude. It is asked whether this behavior is due to the local passage of the equatorial midnight pressure bulge associated with the midnight temperature anomaly. If so, it is to be expected that other data characterizing the midnight temperature anomaly should show consistency with this observation, especially in view of the large changes observed in the zonal velocity in the midnight sector. Consistency in momentum conservation may be checked using available data from previous independent experiments. Such data, taken under similar conditions of solar activity, was substituted into the momentum equation and found to be consistent using a priori estimates of the effect of viscosity.
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