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Articles | Volume 23, issue 20
Articles | Volume 23, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-13255-2023
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Opinion: Recent developments and future directions in studying the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

John M. C. Plane, Jörg Gumbel, Konstantinos S. Kalogerakis, Daniel R. Marsh, and Christian von Savigny

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This paper is one of those appearing to celebrate the 20th birthday of ACP. It is a nice informal well-written resume of what has been happening in mesospheric science recently and I am sure that many readers will find it helpful and interesting.
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The mesosphere or lower thermosphere region of the atmosphere borders the edge of space. It is subject to extreme ultraviolet photons and charged particles from the Sun and atmospheric gravity waves from below, which tend to break in this region. The pressure is very low, which facilitates chemistry involving species in excited states, and this is also the region where cosmic dust ablates and injects various metals. The result is a unique and exotic chemistry.
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