Articles | Volume 33, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-363-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-363-2015
ANGEO Communicates
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19 Mar 2015
ANGEO Communicates |  | 19 Mar 2015

Long-term midlatitude mesopause region temperature trend deduced from quarter century (1990–2014) Na lidar observations

C.-Y. She, D. A. Krueger, and T. Yuan

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The unique, quarter-century-long Na lidar observations of midlatitude mesopause region temperatures are used to yield a cooling trend starting from an insignificant value of 0.64K/decade at 85km, increasing to a maximum of 2.8K/decade between 91 and 93km, and then decreasing to a warming trend above 103km. The long warming episode observed in the 1990s is found to mirror that of the global surface cooling after the Mt Pinatubo eruption.