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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,718 Views
14 Pages

We analyse middle atmospheric profiles of temperature, geopotential height, water vapour volume mixing ratio, and ozone volume mixing ratio above Bern (46.95 ∘ N, 7.44 ∘ E). These profiles were observed by the satellite experiment Aura/ML...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,691 Views
23 Pages

Gravity Wave Breaking Associated with Mesospheric Inversion Layers as Measured by the Ship-Borne BEM Monge Lidar and ICON-MIGHTI

  • Robin Wing,
  • Milena Martic,
  • Colin Triplett,
  • Alain Hauchecorne,
  • Jacques Porteneuve,
  • Philippe Keckhut,
  • Yann Courcoux,
  • Laurent Yung,
  • Patrick Retailleau and
  • Dorothee Cocuron

22 October 2021

During a recent 2020 campaign, the Rayleigh lidar aboard the Bâtiment d’Essais et de Mesures (BEM) Monge conducted high-resolution temperature measurements of the upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT). These measurements were used to conduct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,464 Views
13 Pages

Mesospheric Bore Observations Using Suomi-NPP VIIRS DNB during 2013–2017

  • Yucheng Su,
  • Jia Yue,
  • Xiao Liu,
  • Steven D. Miller,
  • William C. Straka,
  • Steven M. Smith,
  • Dong Guo and
  • Shengli Guo

1 December 2018

This paper reports mesospheric bore events observed by Day/Night Band (DNB) of the Visible/Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NOAA/NASA) Suom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,097 Views
32 Pages

Case Study of a Mesospheric Temperature Inversion over Maïdo Observatory through a Multi-Instrumental Observation

  • Fabrice Chane Ming,
  • Alain Hauchecorne,
  • Christophe Bellisario,
  • Pierre Simoneau,
  • Philippe Keckhut,
  • Samuel Trémoulu,
  • Constantino Listowski,
  • Gwenaël Berthet,
  • Fabrice Jégou and
  • Alexis Le Pichon
  • + 2 authors

12 April 2023

The dynamic vertical coupling in the middle and lower thermosphere (MLT) is documented over the Maïdo observatory at La Réunion island (21°S, 55°E). The investigation uses data obtained in the framework of the Atmospheric dynamics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,399 Views
17 Pages

Observation of Gravity Wave Vertical Propagation through a Mesospheric Inversion Layer

  • Thurian Le Du,
  • Philippe Keckhut,
  • Alain Hauchecorne and
  • Pierre Simoneau

22 June 2022

The impact of a mesospheric temperature inversion on the vertical propagation of gravity waves has been investigated using OH airglow images and ground-based Rayleigh lidar measurements carried out in December 2017 at the Haute-Provence Observatory (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,203 Views
20 Pages

Assessment of ERA-5 Temperature Variability in the Middle Atmosphere Using Rayleigh LiDAR Measurements between 2005 and 2020

  • Alexis Mariaccia,
  • Philippe Keckhut,
  • Alain Hauchecorne,
  • Chantal Claud,
  • Alexis Le Pichon,
  • Mustapha Meftah and
  • Sergey Khaykin

31 January 2022

In this study, the temperature biases and the ability of the ERA-5 product to reproduce the LiDAR variability in the 30–80 km altitude range were evaluated for the period 2005–2020, both for the winter and the summer months. During winter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,790 Views
23 Pages

Design of Multifunctional Mesosphere-Ionosphere Sounding System and Preliminary Results

  • Tongxin Liu,
  • Guobin Yang,
  • Zhengyu Zhao,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Chen Zhou,
  • Chunhua Jiang,
  • Binbin Ni,
  • Yaogai Hu and
  • Peng Zhu

7 May 2020

This paper describes a novel sounding system for which the functions of the medium frequency (MF) radar and the ionosonde are integrated on the same hardware platform and antenna structure, namely the middle atmosphere-ionosphere (MAI) system. Unlike...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,368 Views
18 Pages

Properties of the Long-Term Oscillations in the Middle Atmosphere Based on Observations from TIMED/SABER Instrument and FPI over Kelan

  • Yiyao Zhang,
  • Zheng Sheng,
  • Hanqing Shi,
  • Shudao Zhou,
  • Weilai Shi,
  • Huadong Du and
  • Zhiqiang Fan

11 January 2017

The properties of the long-term oscillations in the middle atmosphere have been investigated using the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) temperature data and Fabry–Perot interferometer (FPI) data. Results for SABE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,105 Views
17 Pages

A climatology of Mesospheric Inversion Layers (MIL) has been created using the Rayleigh lidar located in the south of France at L’Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP). Using criteria based on lidar measurement uncertainties and climatological m...