Signature of the 11-Year Cycle in the Upper Atmosphere |
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Authors: | M-L Chanin |
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Institution: | (1) Service d’Aéronomie du CNRS, I.P.S.L., BP 3, 91370 Verrières-le-Buisson, France |
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Abstract: | In the last 45 years I have studied the thermal structure of the atmosphere from the thermosphere down to the stratosphere,
and found evidence of its variability in relationship with the change of solar irradiation during the 11-year solar cycle.
I would review, in the light of recent model results, the measurements which I had made since the 1960s and which, for some
of them, did not find any explanation at the time of their publication. The data were obtained by two different techniques,
rockets and lidars and correspond to different regions of the atmosphere from the upper thermosphere to the stratosphere.
The expectation was until recently that the atmosphere should be warmed by an increase of solar flux in the course of the
solar cycle due to the increase of UV flux. It has been shown to be the case in the tropical stratosphere and at all latitudes
in the upper thermosphere. But, at high and mid latitudes and at other altitudes, the reverse situation was found to exist
and, until recently, this cooling observed in parts of the atmosphere with increasing solar flux had never been simulated
by models. In addition to reviewing our own data, the paper will present recent results using other dataset which support
our observations. It is only recently that we succeeded with a model able to tune the forcing by planetary waves at the tropopause
level and thus reproduce such behaviour. |
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Keywords: | solar cycle temperature high atmosphere |
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