Diffusion model for the phase delay between thermospheric density and temperature

Consideration of a two-dimensional time-dependent model in which the thermosphere dynamics is excited by the UV heat input within the thermosphere, showing that the wind-induced variations in the diurnal component of atomic oxygen dominate over its temperature-induced variations up to 200 km. The assumption of diffusive equilibrium is therefore in general not valid for O within the lower thermosphere. The effect of the diurnal wind circulation is to redistribute O so that the diurnal variations in the forbidden O/forbidden N2 and forbidden O/forbidden O2 ratios are damped by about 20%, thus contributing to the maintenance of the nighttime F2 region, and the maximum in the diurnal variation of O is shifted by one to two hours away from the temperature maximum toward noon, thus contributing significantly to the temperature-density time lag at thermospheric heights above 200 km, where O becomes the major constituent.

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