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A warmer summer polar mesosphere without the winter residual circulation in WACCM
Maartje Kuilman, Bodil Karlsson
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

In a recent study carried out with the Kühlungsborn Mechanistic general Circulation Model (KMCM), it was shown that the interhemispheric coupling mechanism has a net cooling effect on the summer polar mesospheres. Here the comprehensive Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) is used to reconfirm the hypothesis that the summer polar mesosphere will be much warmer without a gravity wave driven residual circulation in the winter. It is also seen that the northern hemisphere summer polar mesosphere is most affected by the winter hemisphere. A parameterization of noctilucent clouds is made in WACCM. It is seen that without a residual circulation southern winter mesosphere, there are less clouds in the northern hemisphere summer mesopause. For noctilucent clouds in the southern hemisphere the effect is less clear, as expected.


Reference:
Th-AM-1-O-05
Session:
Observations IVa
Presenter/s:
Maartje Kuilman
Topic:
1) Observed trends and long term variations in the middle atmosphere
Presentation type:
Oral communication 15 min
Room:
Conference Room
Chair/s:
Pallam Raju Duggirala
Date:
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Time:
10:00 - 10:15