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Using a numerical model for temperature and neutral and ion composition behaviour at middle atmospheric heights, an analysis has been made of the dependence of atmospheric structural parameters on temperature, solar activity, and on turbulent transfer intensity. For mesospheric heights, an inverse dependence of the nitric oxide density on the temperature has been found. It is thus possible to explain experimentally obtained temperature variations over a cyclc of solar activity at mesospheric and lower thermospheric heights. Numerical simulation results indicate that the temperature in the height range ∼75–120 km depends considerably on both the absolute values of turbulent transfer coefficients and their vertical gradients.
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Koshelev, V.V., Kolpakidi, N.N. An investigation of the dependence of structural parameters of the middle atmosphere on the intensity of photochemical and dynamical processes. PAGEOPH 127, 381–401 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00879818
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