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Volume 57 Supplement 5

Special Issue: Special Section for the 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake (1)

The terdiurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere over Wuhan (30°N, 114°E)

Earth, Planets and Space volume 57, pages 393–398 (2005)Cite this article

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Winds measured by an all-sky meteor radar have been used to investigate the terdiurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region overWuhan (30.6°N, 114.4°E). We present a climatology of the terdiurnal tide at low-mid latitude site during the period of April 2002 to December 2004. The terdiurnal peak is distinct in the long-term power spectrum of the wind. The monthly and seasonal mean maximum amplitudes have values of 7 m/s and 5 m/s, respectively. The short-term amplitudes can occasionally reach up to 30 m/s, and at times the terdiurnal tide is as large as the diurnal and semidiurnal ones. It seems that the meridional component is more regular than the zonal one. An obvious annual variation is observed in the meridional phases with a phase leading in winter than that in summer. The annual variation for the terdiurnal tidal amplitude is not obvious, and is variable from year to year in our observations. This seasonal trend is slightly different from earlier studies at other locations.

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  1. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Guangxin Zhao, Libo Liu, Baiqi Ning, Weixing Wan & Jiangang Xiong

  2. Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

    Guangxin Zhao

  3. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Zhao, G., Liu, L., Ning, B. et al. The terdiurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere over Wuhan (30°N, 114°E). Earth Planet Sp 57, 393–398 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03351823

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