Global dynamics of the MLT

AK Smith - Surveys in Geophysics, 2012 - Springer
The transition between the middle atmosphere and the thermosphere is known as the MLT
region (for mesosphere and lower thermosphere). This area has some characteristics that …

Temperatures in the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere from O2 Atmospheric Band Emission Observed by ICON/MIGHTI

MH Stevens, CR Englert, JM Harlander, KD Marr… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Michelson Interferometer for Global High-resolution Thermospheric Imaging
(MIGHTI) was launched aboard NASA's Ionospheric Connection (ICON) Explorer satellite in …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change from 1850 to 2005 simulated in CESM1 (WACCM)

DR Marsh, MJ Mills, DE Kinnison… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Brohan, P., JJ Kennedy, I. Harris, SFB Tett, and PD Jones, 2006: Uncertainty estimates in
regional and global observed temperature changes: A new data set from 1850. J. Geophys …

[HTML][HTML] Modification of the gravity wave parameterization in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model: Motivation and results

RR Garcia, AK Smith, DE Kinnison… - Journal of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Alexander, MJ, and AW Grimsdell, 2013: Seasonal cycle of orographic gravity wave
occurrence above small islands in the Southern Hemisphere: Implications for effects on the …

[HTML][HTML] Observed temperature changes in the troposphere and stratosphere from 1979 to 2018

AK Steiner, F Ladstädter, WJ Randel… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Observed Temperature Changes in the Troposphere and Stratosphere from 1979 to 2018 in:
Journal of Climate Volume 33 Issue 19 (2020) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Response of migrating tides to the stratospheric sudden warming in 2009 and their effects on the ionosphere studied by a whole atmosphere‐ionosphere model GAIA …

H **, Y Miyoshi, D Pancheva… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper compares results from a whole atmosphere‐ionosphere coupled model, GAIA,
with the COSMIC and TIMED/SABER observations during the 2008/2009 northern winter …

GRACILE: A comprehensive climatology of atmospheric gravity wave parameters based on satellite limb soundings

M Ern, QT Trinh, P Preusse, JC Gille… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Gravity waves are one of the main drivers of atmospheric dynamics. The spatial resolution of
most global atmospheric models, however, is too coarse to properly resolve the small scales …

Implications for atmospheric dynamics derived from global observations of gravity wave momentum flux in stratosphere and mesosphere

M Ern, P Preusse, JC Gille… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this work absolute values of gravity wave (GW) momentum flux are derived from global
temperature measurements by the satellite instruments High Resolution Dynamics Limb …

Cooling and contraction of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere from 2002 to 2021

MG Mlynczak, LA Hunt, RR Garcia… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the thermal structure of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) using
observations from 2002 through 2021 from the SABER instrument on the NASA TIMED …

SOUTHTRAC-GW: An airborne field campaign to explore gravity wave dynamics at the world's strongest hotspot

M Rapp, B Kaifler, A Dörnbrack… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The southern part of South America and the Antarctic peninsula are known as the world's
strongest hotspot region of stratospheric gravity wave (GW) activity. Large tropospheric …