Comparison of Major Sudden Stratospheric Warming Impacts on the Mid-Latitude Mesosphere Based on Local Microwave Radiometer CO Observations in 2018 and 2019

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Yu Shi, Valerii Shulga, Oksana Ivaniha, Yuke Wang, Oleksandr Evtushevsky, Gennadi Milinevsky, Andrew Klekociuk, Aleksey Patoka, Wei Han, Dmitry Shulga
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: polar vortex; mesosphere; stratosphere; major sudden stratospheric warming; microwave radiometer; carbon monoxide; Arctic; Merra; Midwinter
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12233950

In this paper, a comparison of the impact of major sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) in the Arctic in February 2018 (SSW1) and January 2019 (SSW2) on the mid-latitude mesosphere is given. The mesospheric carbon monoxide (CO) and zonal wind in these two major SSW events were observed at altitudes...