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Seasonal temperature variations near the mesopause according to the hydroxyl emission measurements in Zvenigorod

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The rotational temperatures of hydroxyl molecules with different vibrational excitation, which were used to determine the seasonal variations in the vertical temperature distribution near the mesopause at altitudes of 85–90 km, have been obtained based on the spectral measurements of the atmospheric nightglow at IFA RAN observatory in Zvenigorod. The obtained characteristics of the annual and semiannual harmonics have been compared with their lidar and satellite measurements and model representations.

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Original Russian Text © V.I. Perminov, 2009, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2009, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 835–842.

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Perminov, V.I. Seasonal temperature variations near the mesopause according to the hydroxyl emission measurements in Zvenigorod. Geomagn. Aeron. 49, 797–804 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793209060139

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