Mesopause region winds have been measured by the low-frequency (LF) method at Collm until 2008. Since 2004, meteor radar (MR) measurements have been performed also. The LF and MR data set are combined to obtain a continuous time series of monthly zonal prevailing winds from 1979 through 2013 at about 90 km altitude. It has been found that, on a monthly time scale, the difference between zonal
prevailing winds measured by LF and MR are small. During the 35-yr time interval considered, the zonal winds show positive trends towards more westerly winds throughout the year except for spring. There is a tendency that in spring and summer the trends are changing from more positive to small or negative after 1995. There is a possible influence of the 11-year solar cycle, most visible during early summer and
early winter, and the effect weakens during recent years.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:16434 |
| Date | 10 October 2017 |
| Creators | Jacobi, Christoph |
| Contributors | Universität Leipzig, Universität Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English, German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-212081, qucosa:15003 |
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