Mesosphere
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Recent papers in Mesosphere
For the first time, the most plausible explanation is provided with unprecedented detail why temperature varies with height from earth based on author‟s two previously reported breakthrough findings in physics. (i)235Uranium fission... more
Sprites are the optical signatures of electrical discharges in the mesosphere triggered by large lightning strikes associated with thunderstorms. Since their discovery in the late 1980s, sprites have been observed extensively around the... more
A minor stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) event was noticed in the southern hemisphere (SH) during September (day 259) 2010 along with two episodic warmings in early August (day 212) and late October (day 300) 2010. Among the three... more
A one-dimensional electrochemical model is developed to describe, in a self-consistent way, the response of the Earth mesosphere to different types of lightning discharges between 50 and 87 km of altitude. This model is applied to the... more
A one-dimensional self-consistent model has been developed to study the chemical and thermal effects of a single sprite streamer in the Earth's mesosphere. We have used sprite streamer profiles with three different driving current... more
The global static electric field in the global atmospheric electric circuit resulting from mesospheric sprite discharges is inferred from a coupled model for the global static and dynamic electric fields derived from Maxwell's equations.... more
Formation of cation-anion complexes as a process of deionization/recombination in the near earth electrified layers of the atmosphere (ionosphere/mesosphere) is offered as a notional resolution of the anomalous appearance of fine... more
: The Strategic High-Altitude Radiance Code (SHARC) is a new computer code that calculates atmospheric radiation and transmittance for paths from 60 to 300 km altitude in the 2-40 microns spectral region. It models radiation due to NLTE... more
A Rayleigh-scatter lidar operated from Utah State University (41.7°N, 111.8°W) for a period spanning 11 years ― 1993 through 2004. Of the 900 nights observed, data on 150 extended to 90 km or above. They were the ones used in these... more
The interaction of gravity waves (GWs) and the migrating diurnal tide are studied in a GW-resolving general circulation model (GCM) by calculating the tidal components of zonal wind accelerations and equivalent Rayleigh friction due to... more