Interhemispheric differences of mesosphere–lower thermosphere winds and tides investigated from three whole-atmosphere models and meteor radar observations
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Published:2021-09-17
Issue:18
Volume:21
Page:13855-13902
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ISSN:1680-7324
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Container-title:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Atmos. Chem. Phys.
Author:
Stober GunterORCID, Kuchar AlesORCID, Pokhotelov DimitryORCID, Liu HuixinORCID, Liu Han-Li, Schmidt HaukeORCID, Jacobi ChristophORCID, Baumgarten Kathrin, Brown Peter, Janches Diego, Murphy Damian, Kozlovsky AlexanderORCID, Lester Mark, Belova EvgeniaORCID, Kero JohanORCID, Mitchell Nicholas
Abstract
Abstract. Long-term and continuous observations of mesospheric–lower thermospheric winds
are rare, but they are important to investigate climatological changes at
these altitudes on timescales of several years, covering a solar cycle and
longer. Such long time series are a natural heritage of the mesosphere–lower
thermosphere climate, and they are valuable to compare climate models or long-term runs of general circulation models (GCMs). Here we present a
climatological comparison of wind observations from six meteor radars at two
conjugate latitudes to validate the corresponding mean winds and atmospheric
diurnal and semidiurnal tides from three GCMs, namely the Ground-to-Topside Model
of Atmosphere and Ionosphere for Aeronomy (GAIA), the Whole Atmosphere Community
Climate Model Extension (Specified Dynamics) (WACCM-X(SD)), and the Upper
Atmosphere ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic (UA-ICON) model. Our results indicate
that there are interhemispheric differences in the seasonal characteristics of
the diurnal and semidiurnal tide. There are also some differences in the mean
wind climatologies of the models and the observations. Our results indicate
that GAIA shows reasonable agreement with the meteor radar observations
during the winter season, whereas WACCM-X(SD) shows better agreement with
the radars for the hemispheric zonal summer wind reversal, which is more
consistent with the meteor radar observations. The free-running UA-ICON tends
to show similar winds and tides compared to WACCM-X(SD).
Funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft National Aeronautics and Space Administration Australian Antarctic Division Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Canada Research Chairs National Science Foundation
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Subject
Atmospheric Science
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