Released by means of the yank Geophysical Union as a part of the Geophysical Monograph sequence, quantity 87.
This quantity offers a overview of growth made in recent times in experimental and theoretical research of the higher mesosphere and decrease thermosphere and coupling among those areas and the ionosphere. special learn of the mesosphere/lower thermosphere/ionosphere (MLTI) area has traditionally been tricky due to its relative inaccessibility to direct size innovations and the complicated and hugely coupled methods which happen there. even supposing we've got nonetheless now not effectively unraveled these kinds of complicated interactions, we have now made major fresh growth towards a fuller figuring out of the fundamental nation of the MLTI and of the dominant wave and coupling techniques. This monograph features a set of instructional papers, which evaluation our present realizing of points of the MLTI. those tutorials are interspersed with a range of papers describing examine growth on numerous subject matters of present curiosity during this zone. The publication may still as a result be invaluable either to the newcomer, as an creation to this box of analysis, and to the more matured researcher, offering an summary of analysis in development in addition to a handy reference selection of papers describing our present realizing.
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