Description
The database examined here covers a time span from September 1993 to August 2003 and an altitude range of 45 to 90 km, and contains 593 nightly temperature profiles. We examine our data for secular warming and cooling and decadal scale (solar cycle) variations by applying three different models to the data.
Author ORCID Identifier
Troy A. Wynn https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1437-1761
Vincent B Wickwar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5021-2525
Joshua P. Herron https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8676-5834
OCLC
1090815406
Document Type
Dataset
DCMI Type
Dataset
File Format
.txt
Viewing Instructions
The data is plaintext tab-delimited format.
Publication Date
2-14-2019
Funder
NSF, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium
Publisher
Utah State University
Award Number
NSF, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences 9203034; NSF, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences 9302118; NSF, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences 9714789; NSF, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences 0123145; NSF, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences 0531397
Award Title
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CEDAR: Mid-latitude Studies of the Middle Atmosphere Using Rayleigh and Raman Lidar; Collaborative Research: Lidar Studies of Middle Atmospheric Dynamics (CEDAR); CEDAR: The Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Using the USU/CASS Atmospheric Lidar Observatory; CEDAR: New Opportunities for Mesospheric and Lower Thermospheric Research at Atmospheric Lidar Observatory (ALO); Mesospheric Research Based on the Analysis of Temperatures and Densities from the Utah State University/Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences Atmospheric Lidar Observatory
Methodology
Reduced temperatures and temperature uncertainties from USU Rayleigh-scatter lidar signal. The analysis of the temperatures consists of linear and non-linear regression equations fit to the temperatures.
Referenced by
Wynn, Troy Alden, "Statistical Analysis of the USU Lidar Data Set with Reference to Mesospheric Solar Response and Cooling Rate Calculation, with Analysis of Statistical Issues Affecting the Regression Coefficients" (2010). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 797. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/797
Start Date
9-1993
End Date
8-2003
Location
ALO observatory 41.74ºN, 111.81ºW
Language
eng
Code Lists
See README file for details.
Disciplines
Atmospheric Sciences
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Wynn, T. A., Wickwar, V., & Herron, J. (2019). Data from Analysis of Mesosphere Secular Trends and Episodic Variability, 9/3/1993 to 8/5/2003. Utah State University. https://doi.org/10.26078/33QD-Y974
Checksum
33fdadf27c6a452211dc47078fd3127f
Additional Files
README_Wynn_Wickwar_Herron.txt (4 kB)MD5: 58f1d3d003ca35a2a2a6cf593fa9a808
MyData.txt (514 kB)
MD5: 6282cfd9a4f3c4ebeba98f02452d8f3e
Comments
The initial temperatures were taken from the climatology of the sodium resonance lidar at Colorado State University (CSU): She, C. Y., S. Chen, Z. Hu, J. Sherman, J. D. Vance, V. Vasoli, M. A. White, J. R. Yu and D. A. Krueger (2000), Eight-year climatology of nocturnal temperature and sodium density in the mesopause region (80 to 105 km) over Fort Collins, CO (41º N, 105º W), Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3289-3292, doi: 10.1029/2000GL003825