Mesospheric nitric oxide model from SCIAMACHY data

Bender, Stefan; Sinnhuber, Miriam; Espy, Patrick J.; Burrows, John P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2135-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2135-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2135-2019

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

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

Research article

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18 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 18 Feb 2019

Mesospheric nitric oxide model from SCIAMACHY data

Stefan Bender, Miriam Sinnhuber, Patrick J. Espy, and John P. Burrows

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to "Interactive comment on “Mesospheric nitric oxide model from SCIAMACHY data” by Stefan Bender et al."', Stefan Bender, 31 Jan 2019
RC2: 'Review of Bender et al., 2018', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Dec 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to "Interactive comment on “Mesospheric nitric oxide model from SCIAMACHY data”."', Stefan Bender, 31 Jan 2019

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ED: Publish as is (05 Feb 2019) by Franz-Josef Lübken

AR by Stefan Bender on behalf of the Authors (06 Feb 2019)

Short summary

We present an empirical model for nitric oxide (NO) in the mesosphere (60–90 km) derived from SCIAMACHY limb scan data. Our model relates the daily (longitudinally) averaged NO number densities from SCIAMACHY as a function of geomagnetic latitude to the solar Lyman-alpha and the geomagnetic AE indices. We use a non-linear regression model, incorporating a finite and seasonally varying lifetime for the geomagnetically induced NO.