First in situ temperature measurements at the Antarctic summer mesopause

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Lübken, Franz-Josef, Jarvis, Martin J., Jones, G. Owen L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 1999
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Rothera; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503578/; https://doi.org/10.1029/1999GL010719

The Arctic summer mesopause at ∼88 km is the coldest-known place (∼130 K) in the terrestrial atmosphere and is ∼60 K colder in summer than winter. Indirect evidence has suggested that the summer mesopause temperatures in the Antarctic are a few Kelvin warmer than in the Arctic. However, reliable mea...