Climatological Studies of Mesospheric and Lower Thermosphere Thermal and Neutral Wind Structure at Maui, Hawaii

摘要

The research supported by this award dealt in part with the application of the Rayleigh lidar located at the Air Force N4OS facility in Maui, Hawaii to observe the density and temperature profiles during the July campaign period of 2002. These results have been analyzed and submitted for publication in J. Geophysical Res. (Atmospheres). The research funding also supported the analysis of all-sky images obtained at Clemson University during a period of active mesospheric gravity wave disturbances. This work was published in J. Geophysical Res. In December, 2004. The research funding also supported the writing of a detailed review on the phenomenon known as the mesospheric inversion layer; this review was published in Reviews of Geophysics, in November, 2004. Finally, the research supported by the AFOSR funding including the investigation of a simultaneous MIL event observed in the upper and lower mesosphere regions. This event was compared with a model prediction of the effects of the propagation of a long-period gravity wave through the upper mesosphere region.