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Scholarly Works, Center for Space Science and Engineering Research (Space@VT)

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    NRLMSIS 2.1: An Empirical Model of Nitric Oxide Incorporated Into MSIS
    Emmert, J. T.; Jones, M.; Siskind, D. E.; Drob, D. P.; Picone, J. M.; Stevens, M. H.; Bailey, Scott M.; Bender, S.; Bernath, P. F.; Funke, B.; Hervig, M. E.; Perot, K. (American Geophysical Union, 2022-10)
    We have developed an empirical model of nitric oxide (NO) number density at altitudes from similar to 73 km to the exobase, as a function of altitude, latitude, day of year, solar zenith angle, solar activity, and geomagnetic activity. The model is part of the NRLMSIS (R) 2.1 empirical model of atmospheric temperature and species densities; this upgrade to NRLMSIS 2.0 consists solely of the addition of NO. MSIS 2.1 assimilates observations from six space-based instruments: UARS/HALOE, SNOE, Envisat/MIPAS, ACE/FTS, Odin/SMR, and AIM/SOFIE. We additionally evaluated the new model against independent extant NO data sets. In this paper, we describe the formulation and fitting of the model, examine biases between the data sets and model and among the data sets, compare with another empirical NO model (NOEM), and discuss scientific aspects of our analysis.
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    Trends in the polar summer mesosphere temperature and pressure altitude from satellite observations
    Bailey, Scott M.; Thurairajah, Brentha; Hervig, Mark E.; Siskind, David E.; Russell, James M. III; Gordley, Larry L. (2021-09-01)
    Time series of mesospheric temperature and pressure altitude are produced through combining observations by the Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE), Sounding of the Atmosphere Using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER), and Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment (SOFIE) instruments. Time series of both temperature and pressure altitude are produced through the combination of HALOE/SABER providing 29 years in length and HALOE/SOFIE providing 22 years in length. The different sampling of the three instruments constrains the time series to June in the northern hemisphere and December in the southern hemisphere and 6470 degrees in both hemispheres. We interpret the time series by fitting them to simple descriptions of the variations including solar, intra-hemispheric, inter-hemispheric, and linear trend terms. The inferred intra- and inter-hemispheric terms show that dynamical influences rival solar variability in the mesosphere. We find a robust result that the mesosphere is in general cooling at most altitudes at approximately 1-2 K per decade in response to greenhouse gas increases. That cooling leads to a shrinking of the atmosphere on the order of 100-200 m per decade. The shrinking leads to a reduction in cooling and eventually a warming near 0.005 hPa due to hydrostatic contraction.