Unusual Antarctic Mesospheric Cooling During 2019 SH Minor SSW

• Main Authors: S.Eswaraiah, Kyong-Hwan Seo1, Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Hwang, Jun Young, Wonseok Lee, M.Venkat Ratnam, G.Venkata Chalapathi, Chalachew Kindie Mengist, Kim, Yang Ha
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Merra; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6098860; https://zenodo.org/record/6098860

Simultaneous meteor radar, MLS, and MERRA observations show that the Antarctic mesopause cooled to 26 K, in response to a 66 K warming in the stratosphere during the 2019 minor sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) in the Southern Hemisphere. Depressed gravity wave (GW) activity and the enhanced upward...