Abstract
A method for deriving atmospheric temperatures from meteor data was applied to some 2500 radio meteors recorded in 1962. We obtained the mean atmospheric temperature at an altitude of 90 km for each month of the year, and we found a minimum of 170°K in May and a maximum of 207°K in November. Agreement with the most recent atmospheric models is quite good. We also investigated the diurnal variation of the atmospheric temperature at 90 km and found a deep minimum (162°K) at 2300 hours and a shallow maximum (197°K) at 1000 hours. The deep night minimum appears to occur in all seasons.
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