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Earth’s thermal atmospheric tide

Earth’s thermal atmospheric tide
Earth’s thermal atmospheric tide Earth’s thermal atmospheric tide, showing variations in temperature and wind at 100 km (around the mesopause, between the mesosphere and thermosphere). The scale is in ‘anomaly’ units, or how many degrees the temperature field is changing from the mean. From Wikipedia user Jensob