Research Article

Numerical Modeling of the Influence of Solar Activity on the Global Circulation in the Earth’s Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere

Figure 1

The global distributions of the atmospheric temperature (K) at 90 km altitude, obtained from the NRLMSISE-00 empirical model for 16 January, and calculated for two distinct values of solar activity: (a) and (b).
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(b)