Seasonal oscillations of middle atmosphere temperature observed by Rayleigh lidars and their comparisons with TIMED/SABER observations

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Dou, Xiankang, Li, Tao, Xu, Jiyao, Liu, Han-Li, Xue, Xianghui, Wang, Shui, Leblanc, Thierry, Mcdermid, I. Stuart, Hauchecorne, Alain, Keckhut, Philippe, Bencherif, Hassan, Heinselman, Craig, Steinbrecht, Wolfgang, Mlynczak, M.G., Russell Iii, J.M.
• Other Authors: School of Earth and Space Sciences Hefei, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei (USTC), Mengcheng National Geophysical Observatory (MENGO), State Key Laboratory for Space Weather Beijing (SKSW), National Space Science Center Beijing (NSSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing (CAS)-Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing (CAS), High Altitude Observatory (HAO), National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder (NCAR), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), STRATO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France, SRI International Menlo Park (SRI), Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg (MOHp), Deutscher Wetterdienst Offenbach (DWD), NASA Langley Research Center Hampton (LaRC), Center for Atmospheric Sciences Hampton (CAS), Hampton University, European Commission
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2009
• Subjects: Middle atmosphere temperature; Rayleigh lidar; Seasonal oscillation; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]; Greenland; Table Mountain; Sondre Stromfjord
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00406337; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00406337/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00406337/file/Dou_et_al-2009-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research__Solid_Earth_%281978-2012%29.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD011654

International audience The long-term temperature data sets obtained by Rayleigh lidars at six different locations from low to high latitudes within the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) were used to derive the annual oscillations (AO) and semiannual oscillations (SAO) of middle atmosphere temperature: Reunion Island (21.8°S); Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (19.5°N); Table Mountain Facility, California (34.4°N); Observatoire de Haute Provence, France (43.9°N); Hohenpeissenberg, Germany (47.8°N); Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland (67.0°N). The results were compared with those derived from the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instrument onboard the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite