Climatic change in the ionosphere and upper atmosphere and its impact

0465706 - ÚFA 2017 RIV NL eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Laštovička, Jan
Climatic change in the ionosphere and upper atmosphere and its impact.
Proceedings of Living Planet Symposium 2016. Vol. ESASP-740. Nordwijk: European Space Agency (ESA), 2016 - (Ouwehand, L.). ISBN 978-92-9221-305-3. ISSN 1609-042X.
[ESA Living Planet Symposium 2016. Praha (CZ), 09.05.2016-13.05.2016]
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA15-03909S
Institutional support: RVO:68378289
Keywords : long-term trends * ionosphere * mesosphere * thermosphere
Subject RIV: DG - Athmosphere Sciences, Meteorology
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This paper briefly reviews long-term trends in the
mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere as a part
of global climate change. Anthropogenic emissions
cause cooling in the upper atmosphere due to
optical thinning of CO2 layer. CO2 is the dominant
trend driver but anthropogenic changes of
stratospheric ozone, long-term changes of
geomagnetic and solar activity, atmospheric wave
activity and water vapour content, and secular
change of the Earth’s magnetic field also play a
role. This makes the pattern of trends spatially as
well as temporally unstable. A consistent, although
incomplete, scenario of trends in the upper
atmosphere and ionosphere is presented. More
realistic height profiles of CO2 helped to reduce
substantially (or even remove) the quantitative
difference between observational and modelled
trends. Decreasing thermospheric density causes the
lifetime of orbiting space debris to increase, which
is becoming a significant threat to important
satellite technologies.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0264149