Antarctic-Arctic contrasts - key pointers to mesospheric dynamics and energetics

• Main Author: Jarvis, Martin J.
• Other Authors: Warmbein, Barbara
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: European Space Agency 2001
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Rothera; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19768/

In the mesosphere and lower thermosphere the contrasts between the Antarctic and Arctic regarding both the energy inputs and the consequent dynamics, energetics and chemistry mean that comparative polar observations can often provide the key to determining quantifiable links between cause and effect...