Retrieval of Nighttime Distributions of Mesosphere–Lower Thermosphere Characteristics from Satellite Data

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The database of SABER/TIMED satellite campaign includes the distributions of nighttime O, H and some other characteristics of mesosphere – lower thermosphere region which are retrieved from the measurements of OH* volume emission rate (near 2 μm), temperature and ozone. In the core of the retrieval procedure lies the assumption about photochemical equilibrium of nighttime ozone and airglow model that considers two excited states of OH (levels ν = 9, 8). In this work, a modified OH* model (with the rate constants updated according to contemporary publications) is used to retrieve O, H, OH, HO2 and the chemical heating rate at 80–100 km altitudes from to SABER/TIMED measurements in 2002–2021. It was found that the use of new parameters in the retrieval procedure leads to significant (up to 2 times or more) changes in the resulting spatial distributions of O, H and chemical heating rate, while the corresponding changes in OH and HO2 distributions are minor.

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М. Ю. Куликов

Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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Email: kulm@ipfran.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanova str., 46, 603950; Gagarina prosp., 23, Nizhny Novgorod, 603022

M. V. Belikovich

Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: kulm@ipfran.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanova str., 46, 603950; Gagarina prosp., 23, Nizhny Novgorod, 603022

A. G. Chubarov

Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: kulm@ipfran.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanova str., 46, 603950; Gagarina prosp., 23, Nizhny Novgorod, 603022

S. O. Dementyeva

Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: kulm@ipfran.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanova str., 46, 603950

A. M. Feigin

Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: kulm@ipfran.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanova str., 46, 603950; Gagarina prosp., 23, Nizhny Novgorod, 603022

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2. Fig. 1. Night distributions of O (left column, in cm–3) and ORO (right column) averaged by longitude and time (for each season 2002-2021). 1st row – December, January, February, 2nd row – March, April, May, 3rd row – June, July, August, 4th row – September, October, November.

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3. Fig. 2. The night distributions H (left column, in cm–3) and ORN (right column) averaged by longitude and time (for each season 2002-2021). 1st row – December, January, February, 2nd row – March, April, May, 3rd row – June, July, August, 4th row – September, October, November.

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4. Fig. 3. The night distributions of OH (left column, in cm–3) and ORON (right column) averaged by longitude and time (for each season 2002-2021). 1st row – December, January, February, 2nd row – March, April, May, 3rd row – June, July, August, 4th row – September, October, November.

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5. Fig. 4. Night distributions of NO2 (left column, in cm–3) and ORNO2 (right column) averaged by longitude and time (for each season 2002-2021). 1st row – December, January, February, 2nd row – March, April, May, 3rd row – June, July, August, 4th row – September, October, November.

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6. Fig. 5. Longitude and time averaged (for each season 2002-2021) nighttime distributions of the chemical air heating rate CHP (left column, in K/day) and OPCHP (right column). 1st row – December, January, February, 2nd row – March, April, May, 3rd row – June, July, August, 4th row – September, October, November.

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7. Fig. 6. Vertical O profiles averaged in the range of 0-20°N for autumn 2005 (left) and winter 2005-2006 (right), respectively, corresponding to the upgraded OH model* (blue lines) and the models [Mlynczak et al., 2013a, 2018] (red) compared with the recovery results (black lines) of this component according to measurements of the O(1S) luminescence by the SCIAMACHY device [Kaufmann et al., 2014].

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