Climatology of mesopause region temperature, zonal wind, and meridional wind over Fort Collins, Colorado (41°N, 105°W), and comparison with model simulations

Climatology of mesopause region temperature, zonal wind, and meridional wind over Fort Collins,Colorado (41°N, 105°W), and comparison with model simulations

[1] Between May 2002 and April 2006, many continuous observations of mesopause region temperature and horizontal wind, each lasting longer than 24 h (termed full-diurnalcycle observations), were completed at the Colorado State University Na Lidar Facility in Fort Collins, Colorado (41 N, 105 W). The combined data set consists of 120 full-diurnalcycle observations binned on a monthly basis, with...

Seasonal variations of semidiurnal tidalperturbations in mesopause region temperature and zonal and meridional winds above Fort Collins, Colorado(40.6°N, 105.1°W)

[1] On the basis of Colorado State University (CSU) Na lidar observations over full diurnal cycles from May 2002 to April 2006, a harmonic analysis was performed to extract semidiurnal perturbations in mesopause region temperature and zonal and meridional winds over Fort Collins, Colorado (40.6 N, 105.1 W). The observed monthly results are in good agreement with MF radar tidal climatology for U...

Concurrent OH imager and sodiumtemperature/wind lidar observation of a mesopause region undular bore event over Fort Collins/Platteville, CO

Statistical Characterization of Zonal and Meridional Ocean Wind Stress

Four years of ocean vector wind data are used to evaluate statistics of wind stress over the ocean. Raw swath wind stresses derived from the Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) are compared with five different global gridded wind products, including products based on scatterometer observations, meteorological analysis winds from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, and reanalysis ...

Mesopause-region temperature and wind measurements with pseudorandom modulation continuous-wave (PMCW) lidar at 589 nm.

A study on the feasibility of using pseudorandom modulation continuous-wave (PMCW) Na lidar for mesopause-region temperature and horizontal wind measurements is presented with a number of specific geometries and associated beam-telescope overlap functions, suitable for ground-based and airborne deployments. The performance of these deployment scenarios is analyzed by scaling from the received s...