Investigations of the solar influence on middle atmospheric water vapour and ozone during the last solar cycle - analysis of the MPS data set

• Applicant: Dr. Paul Hartogh
• Subject Area: Atmospheric Science
• Term: from 2007 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 43004735

• Final Report Year: 2013

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Publications

• Behavior of mesospheric ozone under nearly polar night conditions. Adv. Space Res., 38, 2006
  G. R. Sonnemann, M. Grygalashvyly, P. Hartogh, and C. Jarchow
  
• On the winter anomaly of the night-to-day ratio of ozone in the middle to upper mesosphere in middle to high latitudes. Adv. Space Res., pages 846–854, 2007
  G. R. Sonnemann, P. Hartogh, C. Jarchow, M. Grygalashvyly, and U. Berger
  
• Smallscale temperature fluctuations associated with gravity waves cause additional radiative cooling of the mesopause region. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34:L24807, 2007
  A. A. Kutepov, A. G. Feofilov, A. S. Medvedev, A. W. A. Pauldrach, and P. Hartogh
  
• The quasi 5-day signal in the mesospheric water vapor concentration at high latitudes in 2003 - a comparison between observations at ALOMAR and calculations. J. Geophys. Res., 113(D4), 2008
  G. Sonnemann, P. Hartogh, M. Grygalashvyly, Song Li, and U. Berger
  
• Long-term behavior of the concentration of the minor constituents in the mesosphere - a model study. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9:2779– 2992, 2009
  M. Grygalashvyly, G. Sonnemann, and P. Hartogh
  
• The quasi-5-day wave of the water vapor mixing ratio within the mesosphere in high latitudes in 2003 - A comparison between observations in Alomar and calculations by means of the GCM Lima. Adv. Geoscience, 15:85–106, 2009
  G. Sonnemann, P. Hartogh, M. Grygalashvyly, S. Li, and U. Berger
  
• Upper stratospheric ozone decrease events due to a positive feedback between ozone and the ozone dissociation rate. Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 16:409–418, 2009
  G. Sonnemann and P. Hartogh
  
• A new, high-performance, heterodyne spectrometer for ground-based remote sensing of mesospheric water vapour. In A. Bhardwaj, S. A. Haider, P. Hartogh, W.-H. Ip, T. Ito, Y. Kasaba, G. M. Mu nos Cara, and C. Y. R. Wu, editors, Advances in Geosciences, volume 19, pages 569–578. World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2010
  K. Hallgren, P. Hartogh, and C. Jarchow
  
• Water vapor measurements at ALOMAR over a solar cycle compared with model calculations by LIMA. J. Geophys. Res., 115, 2010
  P. Hartogh, G. R. Sonnemann, Song Li, M. Grygalashvyly, U. Berger, and F.-J. Lübken
  
• Direct observations of nitric oxide produced by energetic electron precipitation into the Antarctic middle atmosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, 2011
  D. A. Newnham, P. J. Espy, M. A. Clilverd, C. J. Rodger, A. Seppälä, D. J. Maxfield, P. Hartogh, and K. Holmén
  
• Ozone distribution in the middle latitude mesosphere as derived from microwave measurements at Lindau (51.66◦ N, 10.13◦ E). J. Geophys. Res., 116, 2011
  P. Hartogh, C. Jarchow, G. R. Sonnemann, and M. Grygalashvyly
  
• Ozone trends in midlatitude stratopause region based on microwave measurements at Lindau (51.66◦ N, 10.13◦ E), the ozone reference model, and model calculations. Adv. Space Res., 47, 2011
  P. Hartogh, G. R. Sonnemann, M. Grygalashvyly, and Ch. Jarchow
  
• Anthropogenic effects on the distribution of minor chemical constituents in the mesosphere/lower thermoshere - a model study. Adv. Space Res., 50:598–618, 2012
  G. R. Sonnemann, P. Hartogh, U. Berger, F.-J. Lübken, and M. Grygalashvyly
  
• Bright polar mesospheric clouds formed by main engine exhaust from the space shuttle’s final launch. J. Geophys. Res., 2012
  M. H. Stevens, S. Lossow, J. Fiedler, G. Baumgarten, F.-J. L¨ubken, K. Hallgren, P. Hartogh, C. E. Randall, J. Lumpe, S. M. Bailey, R. Niciejewski, R. R. Meier, J. M. C. Plane, A. J. Kochenash, D. P. Murtagh, and C. R. Englert
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JD017638)
• K. Hallgren and P. Hartogh. First detection of tidal behavior in polar mesospheric water vapour by ground-based microwave spectroscopy. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12:3753–3759, 2012
  K. Hallgren and P. Hartogh
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-3753-2012)