Solar cycle variability of atmospheric waves and tides as observed by SuperDARN
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2011 SuperDARN Workshop, Hanover, NH 1
Solar cycle variability of atmospheric waves and
tides as observed by SuperDARN
Elsayed R. Talaat
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
J. Michael Ruohoniemi, Raymond G. Greenwald
Virginia Polytechnic and State [email protected]
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2011 SuperDARN Workshop, Hanover, NH 2
SuperDARN HF Radars
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SuperDARN–insights into mesopause activity
• Mesopause dynamics dominated by waves– Cause of day-to-day, seasonal, and interannual variability– Drivers of the mean structure of the mesosphere and lower
thermosphere• SuperDARN meteor wind analysis:
– Daily specification of tides and planetary waves– De-aliasing of tidal modes – Non-linear interaction between planetary waves and tides– Long-term analysis of inter-annual and solar cycle
variations• 73-day oscillation, QBO, solar cycle, SSW• Six NH radars with >10 years of near continuous data are used:
– Kapuskasing, Saskatoon, Goose Bay, Hankasalmi, Stokkseyri, Pykkvibaer
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diurnal > semidiurnal semiannual > annual
Periodicities in the meridional wind
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2011 SuperDARN Workshop, Hanover, NH 5
diurnal < semidiurnal semiannual > annual
Periodicities in the meridional wind
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2011 SuperDARN Workshop, Hanover, NH 6
diurnal < semidiurnal semiannual > annual
Periodicities in the meridional wind
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2011 SuperDARN Workshop, Hanover, NH 7
diurnal << semidiurnal semiannual < annual
Periodicities in the meridional wind
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2011 SuperDARN Workshop, Hanover, NH 8
diurnal < semidiurnal semiannual << annual
Periodicities in the meridional wind
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diurnal << semidiurnal semiannual < annual
Periodicities in the meridional wind
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Thermosphere
Mesosphere
StratosphereTroposphere
~30 km
~90 km
~15 km
Extreme & Far Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet
Schumann-RungeBands & Continuum
O2
O
H2O
Alti
tude
(km
)
O3
Infrared
QBO
SAO
Solar Cycle
Sensible Heat
Latent Heat
Forcing of Thermal Tides
Temperature
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Variability at middle latitudes
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Variability at middle latitudes
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Variability at high latitudes
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Variability at high latitudes
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Solar Cycle Prominent
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73-day oscillation present
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Average Wave Power
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Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
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Summary• At mid- and high-latitudes, a persistent 73-day oscillation
observed in the meteor winds. Also seen as a variability in semidiurnal tidal amplitudes. Semiannual variation is larger than annual at low- latitudes; vice versa at high-latitudes.
• Semidiurnal tide becomes the dominant tide at mid- and high-latitudes.
• Both diurnal and semidiurnal tide show evidence of solar cycle variability. Not much variation at QBO frequency in the meteor winds.
• Planetary wave activity peaks at ~2, 5, 8, 10, 15, 25 days• QBO signatures associated with sudden stratospheric
warming. • Significant variability in the long-term analysis of planetary
waves at different radars. Solar cycle variability peaks at Kapuskasing and Saskatoon.
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Open Questions…• Why 73 days (and not 120, etc.)? Geomagnetic effect?• Go to the source - examination of lower atmosphere
water vapor from MODIS on Aqua and Terra and ozone from TIMED
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The migrating (W1) (top) and eastward s=3 diurnal (DE3) (middle) amplitude extracted from TIMED/SABER temperatures (v1.07) at the equator at 90 km and 110 km, respectively. The suppressed amplitudes during 2003, 2005, and 2007 correspond to the westward (blue) phase of the QBO (bottom). Contours are 10 m/sec. Several other tidal modes are of secondary importance.
Tides from TIMED/SABER
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73-day oscillation
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73-day oscillation
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Solar cycle variation?
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Solar cycle variation?
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Solar cycle variation?
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Solar cycle variation?
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Solar cycle variation?
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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful from for support from NSF CEDAR Award 0640864 and the NSF Cooperative Agreement ATM-0418101.
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Variability – Saskatoon
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Variability – Saskatoon
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SuperDARN HF RadarsMesospheric neutral wind
measurements
HankasalmiPykkvibaerStokkseyri
Goose Bay
Saskatoon
Kapuskasing
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Stratospheric Warming
• Rise in stratospheric temperatures due to the associated breakdown of polar vortex winds
• Northern hemisphere has minor warmings every winter and major warmings every ~ 2 years
• Southern hemisphere rarely has major warmings• Mesosphere and thermosphere temperature and
wind response• Connections to low latitude QBO• Planetary wave amplification and propagation
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Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
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