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Meteorological control of the D region

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After a short review of the characteristics of ionized state and meteorology of the mesopause region, the winter anomaly of the D region electron density and its variability are described as manifestations of meteorological control. A major mechanism is the redistribution of nitric oxide, another important mechanism is the strong temperature dependence of cluster ion formation rates. The meteorological control can be described either in a ‘concerted’ scenario of more or less independently acting mechanisms, or in a ‘unitary’ scenario where all mechanisms are regarded as effects of a common cause, viz., the strong winter vortex circulation of the middle atmosphere.

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  1. Central Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, (Heinrich Hertz Institute), DDR-1199, Berlin-Adlershof, G.D.R.

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Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on ‘Solar-Terrestrial Physics’, held at Ottawa, Canada, May 1982.

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Taubenheim, J. Meteorological control of the D region. Space Sci Rev 34, 397–411 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00168831

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