CEDAR: Case Studies of the Mesosphere Inversion Layer Using Starfire and Millstone Hill Lidar Measurements of Mesosphere Winds and Temperatures

CEDAR：使用 Starfire 和 Millstone Hill 激光雷达测量中层风和温度的中层逆温层案例研究

• 批准号: 9873179
• 负责人: John Meriwether
• 金额: $ 6.73万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-03-01 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9873179&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CEDAR; Case; Studies; Mesosphere; Inversion

ATM9873179absThe investigators will analyze Rayleigh lidar observations from the Starfire facility in New Mexico and the Millstone Hill facility in Massachusetts. The goal is to develop a phenomenological description of wind and temperature profiles of the mesosphere inversion layer and to supplement this with theoretical calculations. The lidar measurements provide temperature profiles in the middle atmosphere, from which researchers will deduce the density perturbations, potential energy, and spectra of atmospheric gravity waves. These results will be examined to determine whether monochromatic gravity waves of 10 to 15 km vertical wave lengths are essential to generate inversion layers through the coupling of these waves with the mesosphere tidal structure.

ATM9873179ABSTHE调查人员将分析来自新墨西哥州星际火车设施和马萨诸塞州的Millstone Hill设施的瑞利激光雷达观察结果。 目的是开发对中层反演层的风和温度曲线的现象学描述，并用理论计算补充这一点。 激光雷达的测量可在中间大气中提供温度曲线，研究人员从中推断出大气重力波的密度扰动，势能和光谱。 将检查这些结果，以确定垂直波长10到15 km的单色重力波是否通过这些波与中层潮汐结构的耦合产生反转层至关重要。