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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2025-2047</article-id>
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<article-title>Interhemispheric Anti-Phase Variability in Mesospheric Climate Driven by Summer Polar Upwelling During Solstice Months</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Liang</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Zhongfang</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tinsley</surname>
<given-names>Brian</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Physics Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, 75080, USA</addr-line>
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<day>19</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>2025</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>26</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Liang Zhang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<p>The upper mesosphere, a transition region between Earth&amp;rsquo;s atmosphere and space, is characterized by complex interactions among water vapor (H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O), atomic hydrogen (H), ozone (O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;), atomic oxygen (O), and temperatures. Using the MLS, SABER, and SOFIE satellite data, we explore the upwelling-driven interannual variability of temperatures above 90 km (T90) and atmospheric constituents during solstice months, revealing a bottom-up control mechanism of &amp;ldquo;upwelling&amp;mdash;H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O(H)&amp;mdash;O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;(O)&amp;mdash;T90&amp;rdquo; in the two hemispheres. First, summer polar upwelling transports H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O upward, which is then transported toward winter hemisphere by meridional winds. Subsequently, the hydration increases H via photolysis and depletes O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; in the winter hemisphere through H-driven catalytic loss. The O varies in pace with O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; due to ozone chemical equilibrium assumption, and the radiative and chemical heating of O/O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; reduces the T90 in winter hemisphere (T90&lt;sub&gt;W&lt;/sub&gt;). Second, upwelling-induced cooling promotes polar mesospheric cloud (PMC) formation, with ice particle growth blocking H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O transport and dehydrating heights above PMCs. This dehydration reduces H abundance, thereby decreasing H-driven O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; loss. Meanwhile, the colder temperatures directly increase O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; through ozone kinetics. The enhanced O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;, together with the coupled O, collectively increase the summer polar temperatures above 90 km (T90&lt;sub&gt;S&lt;/sub&gt;). This anti-phase interannual variability between hemispheres, mediated by PMC microphysics and H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O-O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; chemistry, establishes summer polar upwelling as a fundamental driver of mesospheric climate and highlights the importance of dynamical-chemical coupling in the upper mesosphere.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>42025602</award-id>
<award-id>41905059</award-id>
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