Temperature Climatology of The Middle Atmosphere From Long-Term Lidar Measurements at Mid-and Low-Latitudes
Sudden seasonal transitions, highly consistent between all instruments, have been observed. In particular, in the early winter mid-latitudes a two-step warming of the winter mesosphere between 65 and 85 km as well as a cooling of the lower mesosphere appear to be real climatological events rather than some short-term geophysical or instrumental random variability.