Retrieval of mesospheric and lower thermospheric kinetic temperature from measurements of CO2 15 µm Earth Limb Emission under non‐LTE conditions

By C. Mertens, M. Mlynczak, M. López‐Puertas, P. Wintersteiner, R. Picard, J. Winick, L. Gordley, J. Russell. 2001

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Jeff Forbes
2. M. Mlynczak
3. J. Russell
4. J. Oberheide
5. R. Roble
6. M. E. Hagan
7. Xiaoli Zhang
8. M. Ern

In Atmospheric Science

1. Jeff Forbes
2. M. Mlynczak
3. J. Russell
4. J. Oberheide
5. M. Ern
6. M. E. Hagan
7. P. Preusse
8. M. Riese

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Stephen D. Eckermann
2. M. Mlynczak
3. M. Ern
4. R. Garcia
5. Anne K. Smith

Citations in the corpus

• Assessment of the quality of the Version 1.07 temperature‐versus‐pressure profiles of the middle atmosphere from TIMED/SABER (2008, methodology): “Next, the V1.07 results from the more complex, NLTE model are evaluated in terms of the retrieval of Tk above 65 km and through the UMLT region; previous assessments of the SABER NLTE algorithms and of Tk can be found in the work of Mertens et al. [2001, 2002, 2004] and in the work of Kutepov et a”
• Seasonal and quasi‐biennial variations in the migrating diurnal tide observed by Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) (2009, unknown): “perature retrieval [ Mertens et al., 2001; Remsberg et al., 2008; Garci´a-Comas et al., 2008] are about 4–5 K in the upper mesosphere.”
• Large-Scale Waves in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Observed by SABER (2005, methodology): “The method used for retrieving SABER temperatures is described by Mertens et al. (2001).”
• Troposphere-Thermosphere Tidal Coupling as Measured by the SABER Instrument on TIMED during July-September, 2002 (2006, methodology): “The method of deriving kinetic temperatures from CO2 emissions is detailed in Mertens et al. (2001).”
• Atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere derived from SABER: Algorithm theoretical basis and measurement uncertainty (2013, methodology): “This approach provides the one standard deviation (“1 sigma”) uncertainty and has been used to assess uncertainty in several SABER-related data products [e.g., Mlynczak and Olander, 1995; Mertens et al., 2001].”
• Global Ray Tracing Simulations of the SABER Gravity Wave Climatology (2009, methodology): “A coupled retrieval algorithm evaluates CO2 densities and temperatures simultaneously from 4.3 mm and 15 mm emissions and takes into account nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) effects [Mertens et al., 2001, 2004].”