The 80 to 130 km altitude region is our old ignorosphere, the region of the atmosphere that no one seems to be interested in and yet the critical region for shuttle entry and atmospheric braking. Comparison between the Air Force reference atmosphere and Shuttle Inertial Measurement Units data shows large fluctuations at high latitudes. New data sources are available now, such as the Arecibo and Millstone Hill ionospheric scatter radars. In the 20 to 80 km altitude range there is a reasonable quantity of data on the mean atmosphere, however, infomation on diurnal variability is needed. In the 20 to 80 km altitude range data is needed to identify systematic variations and models for the regions are preliminary. Unpredictable variations are observed: turbulence, storm effects, gravity waves.
Middle atmosphere density and models
1987-02-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
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