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Burrage et al. 1995

Burrage, M.D., Hagan, M.E., Skinner, W.R., Wu, D.L. and Hays, P.B. (1995). Long-term variability in the solar diurnal tide observed by HRDI and simulated by the GSWM. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL02635. issn: 0094-8276.

Observations of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere winds obtained by the High Resolution Doppler Imager (HRDI) on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) during 1991 to 1995 reveal a semiannual variation in the amplitude of the (1,1) dirurnal tide. The global-scale wave model (GSWM) represents the first numerical modeling attempt at simulating this seasonal variability, and a preliminary comparison of the GSWM tidal results with HRDI measurements is presented. The results of the comparison and numerical tests point to some vital and unresolved questions regarding tidal dissipation and tropospheric forcing. In addition to the seasonal variability, HRDI has revealed a strong interannual modulation of the diurnal tide with amplitudes observed to change by nearly a factor of 2 from 1992 to 1994. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995.

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Keywords
Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Waves and tides, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Mesospheric dynamics, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Theoretical modeling

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Geophysical Research Letters
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