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Temperature Trends in the Polar Mesosphere between 2002-2007 using TIMED/SABER DataThe TIMED Satellite was launched on December 7, 2001 to study the dynamics and energy of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. The TIMED/SABER instrument is a limb scanning infrared radiometer designed to measure a large number of minor constituents as well as the temperature of the region. In this study, we have concentrated on the polar mesosphere, to investigate the temperature characteristics as a function of spatial and temporal considerations. We used the recently revised SABER dataset (1.07) that contains improved temperature retrievals in the Earth polar summer regions. Weekly averages are used to make comparisons between the winter and summer, as well as to study the variability in different quadrants of each hemisphere. For each year studied, the duration of polar summer based on temperature measurements compares favorably with the PMSE (Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes) season measured by radar at the ALOMAR Observatory in Norway (69 N). The PMSE period should also define the summer period suitable for the occurrence of polar mesospheric clouds. The unusual short and relatively warm polar summer in the northern hemisphere
Document ID
20090006627
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Goldberg, Richard A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Kutepov, Alexander A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Pesnell, William Dean
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Latteck, Ralph
(Leibniz-Ins. of Physics Kuhlungsborn, Germany)
Russell, James M.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
December 14, 2008
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2008 Fall AGU Meeting
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: December 14, 2008
End Date: December 19, 2008
Sponsors: American Geophysical Union
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Public
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