11:00 - 12:20
Room: Conference room
Oral presentations
Long-term H2O and CH4 variability in the Middle Atmosphere Observed by SOFIE on the AIM Satellite
Jia Yue1, James Russell1, Pingping Rong1, Mark Hervig2, Tom Marshall3
1Center for Atmospheric Research Hampton University, Hampton, United States
2GATS, Inc, Driggs, United States
3GATS, Inc, Newport News, United States

Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs) have been suggested to be a sensitive indicator of long-term atmospheric change in the polar summer mesopause region due to increasing greenhouse gases and solar effects. [Thomas, 1996]. IAP scientists [Lubken, Berger et al.] have suggested that cooling in the stratosphere and mesosphere causes a shrinking of the atmosphere that extends to PMC heights. Recently, Hervig et al. [2016] concluded that both the cooling in the stratosphere and mesosphere and increasing H2O contribute to increasing PMCs over the last 36 years observed by the SBUV series of satellites. 2017 marked the 10th year anniversary of SOFIE (2007-) measurements. With this long dataset, we study the long-term variability of H2O and CH4 from SOFIE, including linear trends, solar cycle response and other naturally occurring periodicity. The change of SOFIE H2O and CH4 at high latitudes will be compared with the theoretical estimation in Hervig et al. [2016]. Depending on the data processing status, we may present the updated long term variability of SABER H2O which covers the low and mid latitudes.


Reference:
SCyc-O-02
Session:
Solar cycle and trend in PMC
Presenter/s:
Jia Yue
Topic:
4) Long term trends and solar cycle induced variations of ice layer related phenomena and the role of these ice layers for studying climate change in the middle atmosphere.
Presentation type:
Oral communication 15 min
Room:
Conference room
Chair/s:
Mark Hervig
Date:
Thursday, 21 September
Time:
11:20 - 11:40