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Comparison of middle- and low-latitude sodium layer from a ground-based lidar network, the Odin satellite, and WACCM-Na model

Yu, B., Xue, X., Scott, C. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6411-5649, Jia, M., Feng, W., Plane, J. M. C., Marsh, D. R., Hedin, J., Gumbel, J. and Dou, X. (2022) Comparison of middle- and low-latitude sodium layer from a ground-based lidar network, the Odin satellite, and WACCM-Na model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22 (17). pp. 11485-11504. ISSN 1680-7324

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To link to this item DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-11485-2022

Abstract/Summary

The ground-based measurements obtained from a lidar network and the six-year OSIRIS limb-scanning radiance measurements made by the Odin satellite are used to study the climatology of the middle- and low-latitude sodium (Na) layer. Up to January 2021, four Na resonance fluorescence lidars at Beijing (40.5◦N, 116.0◦E), Hefei (31.8◦N, 117.3◦E), Wuhan (30.5◦N, 114.4◦E), and Haikou (19.5◦N, 109.1◦E) collected vertical profiles of Na density for a total of 2,136 nights (19,587 h). These large datasets provide multi-year routine measurements of the Na layer with exceptionally high temporal and vertical resolution. The lidar measurements are particularly useful for filling in OSIRIS data gaps since the OSIRIS measurements were not made during the dark winter months because they utilise the solar-pumped resonance fluorescence from Na atoms. The observations of Na layers from the ground-based lidars and the satellite are comprehensively compared with a global model of meteoric Na in the atmosphere (WACCM-Na). The lidars present a unique test of OSIRIS and WACCM, because they cover the latitude range along 120◦E longitude in an unusual geographic location with significant gravity wave generation. In general, good agreement is found between lidar observations, satellite measurements, and WACCM simulations. Whereas the Na number density from OSIRIS is larger than that from the Na lidars at the four stations within one standard deviation of the OSIRIS monthly average, particularly in autumn and early winter arising from significant uncertainties in Na density retrieved from much less satellite radiance measurements. WACCM underestimates the seasonal variability of the Na layer observed at the lower latitude lidar stations (Wuhan and Haikou). This discrepancy suggests the seasonal variability of vertical constituent transport modeled in WACCM is underestimated because much of the gravity wave spectrum is not captured in the model.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
ID Code:107153
Publisher:Copernicus Publications

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