58: The Atmosperic Response to Solar Variability: Simulations with a General Circulation and Chemistry Model for the Entire Atmosphere (Fortsetzung von MEDEC)

Principal investigator: Hauke Schmidt

Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 1/2006 to 12/2006
Report 1/2008 to 12/2008
Report 1/2009 to 12/2009
Report 1/2010 to 12/2010

Publications

• Schmidt, H., G. P. Brasseur, M. A. Giorgetta: The solar cycle signal in a general circulation and chemistry model with internally generated QBO, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00I14, doi:10.1029/2009JD012542, 2010.
• Dikty, S., H. Schmidt, M. Weber, C. von Savigny, and M. G. Mlynczak: Daytime ozone and temperature variations in the mesosphere: a comparison between SABER observations and HAMMONIA model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 8331–8339, 2010.
• # Achatz, U., N. Grieger, and H. Schmidt: Mechanisms Controlling the Diurnal Solar Tide: Analysis Using a GCM and a Linear Model, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A08303, doi:10.1029/2007JA012967, 2008.
• Yuan, T., H. Schmidt, C. Y. She, D. A. Krueger, S. Reising, Seasonal variations of semidiurnal tidal perturbations in mesopause region temperature, zonal and meridional winds above Ft Collins, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D20103, doi:10.1029/2007JD009687, 2008.
• Offermann, D., O. Gusev, M.Donner, J.M.Forbes, M.Hagan, M.G.Mlynczak, J.Oberheide, P.Preusse, H.Schmidt, and J.M.Russell III: Relative Intensities of Middle Atmosphere Waves, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D06110, doi:10.1029/2008JD010662., 2009.
• # Gruzdev, A., H. Schmidt, G. P. Brasseur: The effect of the solar rotational irradiance variation on the middle and upper atmosphere calculated by a threedimensional chemistry-climate model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 595-614, 2009.
• # Lossow, S., J. Urban, H. Schmidt, D. R. Marsh, J. Gumbel, P. Eriksson, and D. Murtagh: Wintertime water vapour in the polar upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere - First sat. obs. by Odin/SMR, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2008JD011462, in press, 2009
• C.-Y. She, D. A. Krueger, R. Akmaev, H. Schmidt, E. Talaat, and S. Yee: Long-term variability in mesopause region temperatures over Fort Collins, CO based on lidar observations from 1990 through 2007, J. Atm. Sol.-Terr. Phys., in press, 2009.
• Yuan, T., C.-Y. She, D. A. Krueger, F. Sassi, R. Garcia, R. G. Roble, H.-L. Liu, and H. Schmidt: Climatology of mesopause region temperature, zonal wind and mer. wind over Fort Collins ...,J. Geophys. Res., 113, D03105, doi:10.1029/2007JD008697, 2008.
• Offermann, D., M. Jarisch, H. Schmidt, J. Oberheide, K.U. Grossmann, O. Gusev, J.M. Russell III, and M.G. Mlynczak: The "wave turbopause", J. Atm. Sol.-Terr. Phys., 69, 2139-2158, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2007.05.012, 2007.
• Schmidt, H., G. P. Brasseur, and the MEDEC-team, Mesospheric Dynamics, Energetics, and Chemistry, to be published in a book on the AFO2000 program, 2005