Anomalous Conditions in the Middle Atmosphere During Boreal Winters of 2004 and 2006

Space Imagery Enhancement Investigations; Software for Processing Middle Atmosphere Data

“…The overall process we engage in involves (1) downloading or otherwise obtaining files containing SABER data that have been processed into physical units by the operations team; (2) producing event data files and storing them in a certain file structure; and (3) accessing those data in ways that allow us to address science questions. Results obtained from the last of these steps have been reported in our Interim Scientific Reports [7,8,9,10,11] and in a research paper [12].…”

“…Our examination of other portions of the SABER database [9] revealed extraordinary conditions in the polar winter mesosphere in early 2004 and 2006, years during which very strong stratospheric sudden warmings (SSWs) occurred. The OH layer was unusually low-as much as 8 km below the nominal altitude of 87 km-and very bright in this region.…”