Articles | Volume 42, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-285-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-285-2024
Regular paper
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26 Jun 2024
Regular paper |  | 26 Jun 2024

On the relationship between the mesospheric sodium layer and the meteoric input function

Yanlin Li, Tai-Yin Huang, Julio Urbina, Fabio Vargas, and Wuhu Feng

Data sets

USU-CSU Na Lidar Data Tao Yuan https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/all_datasets/54/

Na Lidar ALO http://lidar.erau.edu/data/nalidar/index.php

NaChem and WACCM data Yanlin Li https://doi.org/10.26207/mqke-k327

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Short summary
This work combines lidar observation data and a new numerical sodium (Na) chemistry model, using data assimilation to study the relation between the mesospheric Na layer and the meteoric input function. Simulation captures the seasonal variability in the Na number density compared with lidar observations over the Colorado State University (CSU) lidar. The estimated global ablated meteoroid material inputs from Andes Lidar Observatory and CSU observations are 83 t d-1 and 53 t d-1, respectively.