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Citation: BaoZhu Zhou, XiangHui Xue, Wen Yi, HaiLun Ye, Jie Zeng, JinSong Chen, JianFei Wu, TingDi Chen, and XianKang Dou, 2022: A Comparison of MLT Wind between Meteor Radar Chain and SD-WACCM Results, Earth and Planetary Physics. http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2022040

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A Comparison of MLT Wind between Meteor Radar Chain and SD-WACCM Results

BaoZhu Zhou 1,2,, XiangHui Xue 1,2,3,4,, Wen Yi 1,2,, HaiLun Ye 1,2,, Jie Zeng 1,2,, JinSong Chen 5,, JianFei Wu 1,2,, TingDi Chen 1,2,, and XianKang Dou 1,6,

1CAS Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China;

2Mengcheng National Geophysical Observatory, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China;

3Hefei National Laboratory for the Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;

4CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology, Hefei, China;

5National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao, China;

6Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Fund Project: the provision of Kunming meteor radar data by the China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation (CRIRP)This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants No. 42125402, 41974174, 42074181, 42188101, 41831071, 42174183 and 41904135), the B-type Strategic Priority Program of CAS (grant No. XDB41000000), the Project of Stable Support for Youth Team in Basic Research Field, CAS (grant No. YSBR-018), the Open Research Project of Large Research Infrastructures of CAS - “Study on the interaction between low/mid-latitude atmosphere and ionosphere based on the Chinese Meridian Project, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (grant No.YD3420002004), the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (grant no. 2008085MD113), the Joint Open Fund of Mengcheng National Geophysical Observatory (MENGO-202209), the foundation of National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment (Grant No. JCKY2020210C614240301). We acknowledge for the data storage resources from “National Space Science Data Center, National Science & Technology Infrastructure of China (http://www.nssdc.ac.cn)”, and the provision of Mohe, Beijing, Wuhan and Fuke meteor radar data by the Chinese Meridian Project and STERN (the Solar–Terrestrial Environment Research Network)

A meteor radar chain located along the 120°E meridian in the Northern Hemisphere from low to middle latitudes provides long-term horizontal wind observations of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region. In this study, we report a seasonal variation and its latitudinal feature in the horizontal mean wind in the MLT region observed by 6 meteor radars located at Mohe (53.5°N, 122.3°E), Beijing (40.3°N, 116.2°E), Mengcheng (33.4°N, 116.5°E), Wuhan (30.6°N, 114.4°E), Kunming (25.6°N, 108.3°E) and Fuke (19.5°N, 109.1°E) stations. In addition, we compare the MLT wind measured by the meteor radars and the simulated by Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM). In general, the WACCM appears to well capture the seasonal and latitudinal variations in the zonal wind component. Especially, the temporal evolution of the eastward zonal wind maximum shifts from July to May as the latitude decreases. However, the WACCM meridional wind show differences with the meteor radar observations.

Key words: Meteor radar, MLT wind, SD-WACCM

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BaoZhu Zhou, XiangHui Xue, Wen Yi, HaiLun Ye, Jie Zeng, JinSong Chen, JianFei Wu, TingDi Chen, and XianKang Dou