CHEMICAL EFFECTS ON ECOLOGY IN MESOSPHERIC DYNAMICS AND APPLICATIONS

The joint interactions of hydrodynamics, radiative transfer and photochemistry destabilize a hydrodynamic system that would otherwise stable. This observation is of important interest in itself. In this paper, the stability of baroclinic, axially symmetric vortex on an f-plane to axially symmetric disturbances is studied. It is found that with photochemistry and radiative transfer disturbances are unstable regardless of the value of the Richardson Number. The growth rates under conditions relevant to the mesospheric dynamics and applications are, however, very small.