Effect of the wind field on the vertical distribution of tidal energy

Tidal effects are considered as a possible source of the observed interrelationship between variations in the parameters of the upper and lower atmosphere. The influence of zonal winds is taken into account, and height profiles of refractive index and tidal energy over the range from zero to 150 km are plotted for the months of July and December. The results demonstrate that the atmospheric layers interact via a tidal mechanism in several ways and that different meteorological processes are affected by variations in atmospheric parameters resulting from the superposition of maxima or minima of the wave modes of diurnal and semidiurnal tides.