Abstract: A number of possible interaction mechanisms between internal gravity waves and radiative and photochemical processes at altitudes from 80 to 120 km are considered. The heat of recombination of atomic oxygen and absorption ...

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Abstract: An infrared radiative heating and cooling algorithm designed to be used with dynamical models of the middle atmosphere is described. A Curtis matrix is used to compute cooling by the 15 and 10 ?m bands of carbon dioxide. ...

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Abstract: Data from the Nimbus 7 Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) for the period 25 October 1978?28 May 1979 are used in a descriptive study of ozone variations in the middle stratosphere. It is shown that the ozone ...