Nocturnal means of OH(3-1) airglow rotational temperatures from the mesopause region obtained during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (SSW) at different sites in Europe between 2009 and 2023
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The temperatures are derived from the rotational vibrational transition of the OH molecule originating from a thin layer in approximately 86-87 km centroid height. The spectra have been obtained with largely the Ground-based Infrared P-branch Spectrometers (GRIPS) located at the Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research, ALOMAR (ALR, 69.28°N, 16.01°E; GRIPS 9), at the University of Wuppertal (WUP, 51.25°N, 7.15°E; GRIPS 17), at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP, 43.93°N, 5.71°E; GRIPS 12), at the Environmental Research Station “Schneefernerhaus” (UFS: 47.42°N, 10.98°E, GRIPS 7 and GRIPS 8) and at Catania (CAT, 37.51°N, 15.04°E, GRIPS 11). The instruments are operated by the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in close cooperation with representatives from the above-mentioned observatories. All sites are part of the international Network for the Detection of Mesospheric Change (NDMC). The data set covers the time period 40 nights prior and after the onsets of the Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (SSW) in 2010 (9th Feb), 2013 (7th Jan), 2018 (12th Feb), 2019 (2nd Jan), 2021 (5th Jan) and 2023 (16th Feb). It is used in a study of SSW by Harvey et al. ("Signatures of Polar Vortex Weakening in the MLTI: A Review", submitted to Surveys in Geophysics in 2025).
The wavelength range covered by the instruments allows the observation of the OH(3-1) Q- and P-branches as well as of the OH(4-2) R- and Q-branches. Rotational temperatures are calculated using OH(3-1) P-branch emissions between 1520 nm and 1550 nm. During routine operation one spectrum is obtained every 15s, originating from a field of view of approximately 15° x 15°, which corresponds to ca. 560 km² in 87 km height (2° x 2° in case of GRIPS 11 and GRIPS 17, corresponding to ca. 20 km² in 87 km height).
All GRIPS are equipped with a Czerny-Turner spectrograph and a thermoelectrically cooled InGaAs array. Only the P1(2), P1(3) and P1(4) rotational lines of the (3-1) vibrational transition are used for the derivation of temperatures. Intensities are only read out at the line centers of the smoothed spectra due to residual overlapping of the lines at their wings. Important physical constants applied during the processing are taken from Mies (1974) (Einstein coefficients) and Krassovsky et al. (1962) (rotational term values).
For the estimation of a nocturnal mean (individual time series) value all samples of the nightly temperature time series are weighted according to their individual precision. Thus, mean temperatures are between 1 and 2 K lower compared to the unweighted arithmetic mean (cloud covered periods are excluded from analysis; insufficient removal however will result in low precision values with a warm bias due to spectral characteristics of water / ice droplets). Data from an instrument are regarded only if its effective observation amounts to at least 2 h. Other dates are flagged with “NaN”, i.e. missing value.
Further details concerning the derivation of rotational temperatures from the airglow are presented in Schmidt, C., Höppner, K. and Bittner, M. (2013): A ground-based spectrometer equipped with an InGaAs array for routine observations of OH(3-1) rotational temperatures in the mesopause region. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) 102 (2013) 125–139. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2013.05.001. Exemplary information on the long-term performance for the NDMC reference site UFS are given in Schmidt, C., Küchelbacher, L., Wüst, S. and Bittner, M. (2023): OH airglow observations with two identical spectrometers: benefits of increased data homogeneity in the identification of variations induced by the 11-year solar cycle, the QBO, and other factors. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT), Vol. 16, 19, 4331-4356. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-4331-2023.
The following table describes the content of the ASCII-file containing the data (separator between two columns is “two blanks” aka “ ” aka ”2X”).
Column
parameter
unit
Format
description
Site
1
date
Days
I3
±40 nights around SSW onset
n.a.
2
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2009/2010
ALR
3
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2012/2013
ALR
4
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2017/2018
ALR
5
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2018/2019
ALR
6
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2020/2021
ALR
7
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2022/2023
ALR
8
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
mean of all seasons
ALR
9
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
smoothed mean of all seasons
ALR
10
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2009/2010
WUP
11
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2012/2013
WUP
12
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2017/2018
WUP
13
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2018/2019
WUP
14
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2020/2021
WUP
15
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2022/2023
WUP
16
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
mean of all seasons
WUP
17
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
smoothed mean of all seasons
WUP
18
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2009/2010
UFS
19
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2012/2013
UFS
20
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2017/2018
UFS
21
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2018/2019
UFS
22
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2020/2021
UFS
23
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2022/2023
UFS
24
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
mean of all seasons
UFS
25
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
smoothed mean of all seasons
UFS
26
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2009/2010
OHP
27
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2012/2013
OHP
28
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2017/2018
OHP
29
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2018/2019
OHP
30
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2020/2021
OHP
31
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2022/2023
OHP
32
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
mean of all seasons
OHP
33
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
smoothed mean of all seasons
OHP
34
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2009/2010
CAT
35
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2012/2013
CAT
36
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2017/2018
CAT
37
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2018/2019
CAT
38
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2020/2021
CAT
39
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
2022/2023
CAT
40
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
mean of all seasons
CAT
41
temperature
Kelvin
F5.1
smoothed mean of all seasons
CAT
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2025-02-25



