External impact on wind in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere region |
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| Authors: | G V Vergasova E S Kazimirovsky |
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| Institution: | 1.Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Branch,Russian Academy of Sciences,Irkutsk,Russia |
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| Abstract: | Regular measurements of the velocity and direction of the horizontal wind in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere (MLT) region
at a height of ∼95 km have been conducted since 1975 over Eastern Siberia (Badary observatory near Irkutsk), using the spaced-diversity
reception method in the LF range. The accumulated database of measurement results (for more than 20 years, from 1974 to 1996)
makes it possible to get information on the impact on wind in the MLT region from both below (stratospheric warmings) and
above (geomagnetic storms as a consequence of magnetospheric disturbances) with sufficient statistical reliability. Effects
of stratospheric warmings and strong geomagnetic storms in the prevailing wind and amplitude of the semidiurnal tide are evaluated
by the superposed epoch method. It is shown that the effects of stratospheric warmings depend on the type (intensity) of stratospheric
warming and on the phase of quasi-biennial oscillations of the wind in the equatorial stratosphere at the 30 hPa level. The
response of MLT winds to external impacts is different for the 21st and 22nd cycles of solar activity. Effects of geomagnetic
storms (A
p > 100) are manifested in the decrease in the eastward prevailing wind and increase in the semidiurnal tide amplitude. |
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