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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 41, 期 19, 页码 6919-6925出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061273
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- NASA [NNX11AB76A]
Specular meteor radars have provided essential information about the mesospheric/lower thermosphere (MLT) dynamics. The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar has been conducting continuous meteor echo observations in a fixed, stable configuration since 2002. Here we present estimates of the neutral air density variations derived from observations of the meteor peak flux altitude. Using a simple model assuming a linear trend and a sinusoidal solar cycle we derived a trend of a decreasing neutral density of 5.8 +/- 1.1% per decade at approximately 91 km altitude and an amplitude across the most recent solar cycle, the solar cycle of 2.4 +/- 0.7% for solar cycle 23/24. The long-term trend of decreasing neutral air density in the MLT is in good agreement with the model results from Akmaev et al. (2006).
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