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LASP research associate Dave Rusch is teamed with scientists Guy P. Brasseur (now at the Max Planck Institute fir Meteorology), Anne Smith, XuiXi Tie, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Kunihiko Kodera with the Japanese Meteorological Research Agency.

Significant results from this study are contained in a paper 1 to be submitted to J. Geophys. Res. in March 2001. The paper uses the SOCRATES 2D atmospheric model to describe the effects of CO2 changes in the Earth's mesosphere and compares these changes to those calculated from solar variability. The changes in mesospheric temperature and ozone are quite different for CO2 changes than for solar flux changes.

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