• Impacts of a sudden stratospheric warming on the mesospheric metal layers 

      Feng, Wuhu; Kaifler, Bernd; Marsh, Daniel R.; Höffner, Josef; Hoppe, Ulf-Peter; Williams, Bifford P.; Plane, John M.C. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-11)
      We report measurements of atomic sodium, iron and temperature in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) made by ground-based lidars at the ALOMAR observatory (69°N, 16°E) during a major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event that occurred in January 2009. The high resolution temporal observations allow the responses of the Na and Fe layers to the SSW at high northern latitudes to be ...
    • Mesospheric temperatures and sodium properties measured with the ALOMAR Na lidar compared with WACCM 

      Dunker, Tim; Hoppe, Ulf-Peter; Feng, Wuhu; Plane, John M.C.; Marsh, Daniel R. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-01-16)
      We present a comparison of the temperature and sodium layer properties observed by the ALOMAR Na lidar (69.3°N, 16.0°E) and simulated by the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with specified dynamics and implemented sodium chemistry (WACCM-Na). To constrain the meteorological fields below 60 km, we use MERRA and GEOS-5. For the years 2008 to 2012, we analyse daily averages of temperature ...
    • The Upper Stratospheric Solar Cycle Ozone Response 

      Ball, William T.; Rozanov, Eugene; Alsing, Justin; Marsh, Daniel R.; Tummon, Fiona Sadhbha Brigitta; Mortlock, Daniel J; Kinnison, Douglas; Haigh, Joanna D (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-10)
      The solar cycle (SC) stratospheric ozone response is thought to influence surface weather and climate. To understand the chain of processes and ensure climate models adequately represent them, it is important to detect and quantify an accurate SC ozone response from observations. Chemistry climate models (CCMs) and observations display a range of upper stratosphere (1–10 hPa) zonally averaged spatial ...