The improbable clouds at the edge of the atmosphere
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The combined effects of ozone, sunlight, and atmospheric waves turn the near void of Earth's mesosphere into a refrigerator capable of producing vast clouds of water ice as mentioned in this paper, which is called water ice refrigeration.Abstract:
The combined effects of ozone, sunlight, and atmospheric waves turn the near void of Earth’s mesosphere into a refrigerator capable of producing vast clouds of water ice.read more
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Obscure waves in planetary atmospheres
TL;DR: On Earth and on other planets, internal gravity waves shape the dynamics and thermodynamics of the atmosphere as mentioned in this paper, and the internal gravity wave shapes the dynamics of the Earth's atmosphere.
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The MATS satellite mission - gravity wave studies by Mesospheric Airglow/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy
Jörg Gumbel,Linda Megner,Ole Martin Christensen,Ole Martin Christensen,Nickolay Ivchenko,Nickolay Ivchenko,Donal P. Murtagh,Seunghyuk Chang,Joachim Dillner,Terese Ekebrand,Gabriel Giono,Arvid Hammar,Jonas Hedin,Bodil Karlsson,Mikael Krus,Anqi Li,Steven McCallion,Georgi Olentsenko,Soojong Pak,Woojin Park,Jordan Rouse,Jacek Stegman,Georg Witt +22 more
TL;DR: MATS as discussed by the authors is a new Swedish satellite that combines space-borne limb imaging in combination with tomographic and spectroscopic analysis to obtain gravity wave data on relevant spatial scales, which is a key to understanding gravity waves in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere.
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Stray light suppression of a compact off-axis telescope for a satellite-borne instrument for atmospheric research
TL;DR: In this article, a 700 mm breadboard baffle for stray light rejection has been designed and tested, which has a hemispherical reflectance of 0.2-0.6% across the instrument detection band (270-776 nm).
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Analysis of 24 years of mesopause region OH rotational temperature observations at Davis, Antarctica – Part 1: Long-term trends
TL;DR: In this article, the long-term trend, solar cycle response, and residual variability in 24 years of hydroxyl nightglow rotational temperatures above Davis research station, Antarctica (68 ∘ ǫS, 78 ∘ E) are reported.
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Evidence for a world circulation provided by the measurements of helium and water vapour distribution in the stratosphere
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the vertical distribution of water vapour and helium in the lower stratosphere over southern England and found that the helium content of the air is remarkably constant up to 20 km but the water content is found to fall very rapidly just above the tropopause, and in the lowest 1 km of the stratosphere the humidity mixing ratio falls through a ratio of 10-1.
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Measurements of the Amount of Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere and its Relation to other Geophysical Conditions. Part III.
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Transport in the Middle Atmosphere
TL;DR: An overview of the current understanding of transport in the middle atmosphere can be found in this paper, where the authors focus on the stratosphere, where both the interest and knowledge are the greatest, but a few remarks are also made on the mesosphere.
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Evidence for interhemispheric stratosphere‐mesosphere coupling derived from noctilucent cloud properties
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived evidence for interhemispheric stratosphere-mesosphere coupling derived from noctilucent cloud properties, and showed that interhemiscale stratosphere and mesosphere coupling can be inferred from cloud properties.