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We propose a method for retrieval of directly unmeasurable concentrations of minor gas constituents of the mesosphere from available experimental data using simplified models of atmospheric photochemical systems. The method is used for processing of the results of simultaneous measurements of ozone and hydroxyl concentrations within the framework of the CRISTA-MAHRSI satellite experiments. As a result, vertical distributions of concentrations of three more key chemical components of the mesosphere, namely, atomic oxygen, atomic hydrogen, and hydroperoxide, were retrieved. It is shown that a limiting altitude-dependent ratio between OH and O3 concentrations is valid in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. It is found that CRISTA-MAHRSI data satisfy this ratio up to an altitude of 87 km, but a strong discrepancy between theory and experiment arises in the upper region.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 760–769, September 2006.
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Kulikov, M.Y., Feigin, A.M. & Sonnemann, G.R. Retrieval of the vertical distribution of chemical components in the mesosphere from simultaneous measurements of ozone and hydroxyl distributions. Radiophys Quantum Electron 49, 683–691 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-006-0103-4
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