Long-term studies of the summer wind in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere at  middle and high latitudes over Europe

Jaen, Juliana; Renkwitz, Toralf; Liu, Huixin; Jacobi, Christoph; Wing, Robin; Kuchař, Aleš; Tsutsumi, Masaki; Gulbrandsen, Njål; Chau, Jorge L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14871-2023

Articles | Volume 23, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14871-2023

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Long-term changes and trends in the middle and upper...

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01 Dec 2023

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Long-term studies of the summer wind in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere at middle and high latitudes over Europe

Juliana Jaen, Toralf Renkwitz, Huixin Liu, Christoph Jacobi, Robin Wing, Aleš Kuchař, Masaki Tsutsumi, Njål Gulbrandsen, and Jorge L. Chau

Data sets

JaenACP2023 Juliana Jaen https://doi.org/10.22000/1603

Short summary

Investigation of winds is important to understand atmospheric dynamics. In the summer mesosphere and lower thermosphere, there are three main wind flows: the mesospheric westward, the mesopause southward (equatorward), and the lower-thermospheric eastward wind. Combining almost 2 decades of measurements from different radars, we study the trend, their interannual oscillations, and the effects of the geomagnetic activity over these wind maxima.