Abstract
On June 3, 2010, the first meteorological rocket of the Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project was successfully launched at the Hainan rocket launch site (19.5°N), China. This paper analyzes the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and wind recorded by the rocket and its supportive balloons, and investigates wind shear, gravity waves and atmospheric stability. In addition, we compare the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and wind with SABER/TIMED temperature measurements and the modeling results of MSIS00 and HWM07.
Highlights
The temperature profile recorded by the third balloon is well consistent with the SABER observations
This paper presents the variations and distributions of the temperature and wind at low latitude (19.5°N) recorded by the first meteorological rocket of the Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project and its three supportive balloons, which were launched at the Hainan rocket launching site on June 3, 2010
The results are compared with observations made by the SABER/TIMED satellite and model simulations of MSIS00 and HWM07
Summary
The rocket data for wind and temperature collected at altitudes from 0 to 52 km are used in this paper. The primary version of the Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter (MSIS) empirical model was based on temperature, density, and composition data recorded by satellites and derived from incoherent scatter radar. The MSIS model provides the neutral temperature and density of the Earth’s atmosphere from the ground to the thermosphere. The primary version of the Horizontal Neutral Wind Model (HWM) was based on wind data recorded by the AE-E and DE 2 satellites. The HWM is an empirical model of the horizontal neutral wind in the upper thermosphere, and its latest version is HWM07 [15]. The wind from HWM07 and temperature from MSIS00 are compared with the observations made by the rocket and balloons. Note that positive wind directions are eastward or northward and negative winds are westward or southward in this paper
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