Winter 2018 major sudden stratospheric warming impact on midlatitude mesosphere from microwave radiometer measurements

Wang, Yuke; Shulga, Valerii; Milinevsky, Gennadi; Patoka, Aleksey; Evtushevsky, Oleksandr; Klekociuk, Andrew; Han, Wei; Grytsai, Asen; Shulga, Dmitry; Myshenko, Valery; Antyufeyev, Oleksandr

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10303-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10303-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10303-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 15

Research article

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14 Aug 2019

Research article |

| 14 Aug 2019

Winter 2018 major sudden stratospheric warming impact on midlatitude mesosphere from microwave radiometer measurements

Yuke Wang, Valerii Shulga, Gennadi Milinevsky, Aleksey Patoka, Oleksandr Evtushevsky, Andrew Klekociuk, Wei Han, Asen Grytsai, Dmitry Shulga, Valery Myshenko, and Oleksandr Antyufeyev

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Data sets

The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA2) R. Gelaro, W. McCarty, M. J. Suárez, R. Todling, A. Molod, L. Takacs, C. A. Randles, A. Darmenov, M. G. Bosilovich, R. Reichle, K. Wargan, L. Coy, R. Cullather, C. Draper, S. Akella, V. Buchard, A. Conaty, A. M. da Silva, W. Gu, G. Kim, R. Koster, R. Lucchesi, D. Merkova, J. E. Nielsen, G. Partyka, S. Pawson, W. Putman, M. Rienecker, S. D. Schubert, M. Sienkiewicz, and B. Zhao https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0758.1

Assimilation of SSM/I radiance in the NCEP global data assimilation system K. Okamoto and J. C. Derber https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR3205.1

Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications MERRA-2 https://acd-ext.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data_services/met/ann_data.html

EOS MLS Data Readers Aura MLS https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/data/readers.php

Access to archive data sets ECMWF https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/archive-datasets/

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The major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) dramatically changed atmospheric conditions. This event is accompanied by a sharp increase in the polar stratosphere temperature, zonal wind reverse, and strong changes in the polar mesosphere. These changes affect even the midlatitude mesosphere, which is not widely covered by observations. Our newly installed microwave radiometer allowed for studying mesospheric zonal wind and CO variations to understand the SSW 2018 effects at midlatitudes.