CEDAR: Case Studies of the Mesosphere Inversion Layer Using Starfire and Millstone Hill Lidar Measurements of Mesosphere Winds and Temperatures

调查人员将分析新墨西哥州Starfire设施和马萨诸塞州Millstone Hill设施的瑞利激光雷达观测结果。目标是发展对中间层逆温层的风和温度剖面的现象学描述，并以理论计算补充这一点。激光雷达测量提供了中层大气的温度分布，研究人员将从中推断出大气重力波的密度扰动、势能和光谱。将对这些结果进行检验，以确定垂直波长为10至15公里的单色重力波是否必须通过这些波与中间层潮汐结构的耦合来产生反转层。

ATM9873179absThe investigators will analyze Rayleigh lidar observations from the Starfire facility in New Mexico and the Millstone Hill facility in Massachusetts. The goal is to develop a phenomenological description of wind and temperature profiles of the mesosphere inversion layer and to supplement this with theoretical calculations. The lidar measurements provide temperature profiles in the middle atmosphere, from which researchers will deduce the density perturbations, potential energy, and spectra of atmospheric gravity waves. These results will be examined to determine whether monochromatic gravity waves of 10 to 15 km vertical wave lengths are essential to generate inversion layers through the coupling of these waves with the mesosphere tidal structure.