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THE pressure modulator radiometer (PMR) is one of the instruments carried by the Nimbus 6 observatory satellite launched on June 12, 1975 into a near polar circular orbit at an altitude of ∼ 1,000 km. The PMR sounds atmospheric temperature in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere (the 40–95 km height range) by measuring infrared emission from atmospheric carbon dioxide in its 15-µm band1. With this instrument measurements of mesospheric temperature with global coverage are being made for the first time. Here we present some of the first results from the PMR, which show, in particular, the propagation of a planetary wave from the troposphere up to the mesopause.
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AUSTEN, M., BARNETT, J., CURTIS, P. et al. Satellite observations of planetary waves in the mesosphere. Nature 260, 594–596 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/260594a0
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