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JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS
Volume 62, Issue 17-18, Pages 1587-1601Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(00)00114-0
Keywords
stratosphere; mesosphere; wave; mean-flow interaction
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The last 50 years have seen enormous advances in our knowledge and understanding of the stratosphere and mesosphere, which together comprise the middle atmosphere. Beginning from a phase of basic discovery, we have now reached the stage where most observed phenomena can be modelled from first principles with a reasonable degree of fidelity, and where there is an overall theoretical framework which can be tested against measurements and models. This review surveys a number of major surprises in middle atmosphere science over the past 50 years. A phenomenological and historical approach is adopted in each case, leading up to the current literature. Along the way, a common thread emerges: the central role of waves, of various types, in redistributing angular momentum within the atmosphere, and the global nature of the atmospheric response to such redistribution. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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