Articles | Volume 34, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-29-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-29-2016
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15 Jan 2016
Regular paper |  | 15 Jan 2016

Ozone and temperature decadal responses to solar variability in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, based on measurements from SABER on TIMED

F. T. Huang, H. G. Mayr, J. M. Russell III, and M. G. Mlynczak

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Satellite data over the 11-year solar cycle from 2002 to 2014 show that the response of atmospheric temperatures are in phase with the sun's activity from 50 to 100 km. The ozone variations are also in phase with those of temperature between ~ 80 and 100 km but are mostly out of phase between ~ 50 and 80 km. This is consistent with the idea that dynamics are more in control from 80 to 100 km, while ozone photochemistry is more in control from ~ 50 to 80 km.