Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-77-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-77-2019
Research article
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03 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 03 Jan 2019

Thermal structure of the mesopause region during the WADIS-2 rocket campaign

Raimund Wörl, Boris Strelnikov, Timo P. Viehl, Josef Höffner, Pierre-Dominique Pautet, Michael J. Taylor, Yucheng Zhao, and Franz-Josef Lübken

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Simultaneous temperature measurements during the WADIS-2 rocket campaign are used to investigate the thermal structure of the mesopause region. Vertically and horizontally resolved in situ and remote measurements are in good agreement and show dominating long-term and large-scale waves with periods of 24 h and higher tidal harmonics. Only a few gravity waves with periods shorter than 6 h and small amplitudes are there.
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