Instability layers and airglow imaging

JH Hecht - Reviews of Geophysics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
For over 30 years it has been recognized that atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) in the 80–
110 km region significantly perturb the basic atmospheric state, perhaps causing instability …

Three-dimensional reconstruction of heliospheric structure using iterative tomography: A review

BV Jackson, PP Hick, A Buffington, MM Bisi… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2011 - Elsevier
Current perspective and in-situ analyses using data from NASA's twin Solar TErrestrial
RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have focused studies on ways to provide three …

Criteria for sprites and elves based on Schumann resonance observations

E Huang, E Williams, R Boldi… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Ground flashes with positive polarity associated with both sprites and elves excite the Earth's
Schumann resonances to amplitudes several times greater than the background …

Airglow observations of mesoscale low‐velocity traveling ionospheric disturbances at midlatitudes

FJ Garcia, MC Kelley, JJ Makela… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a summary of 630.0 nm emission observations made by the Cornell All‐
Sky Imager that have revealed an abundance of structure in the midlatitude thermosphère …

The solar mass-ejection imager (SMEI) mission

BV Jackson, A Buffington, PP Hick, RC Altrock… - Solar Physics, 2004 - Springer
We have launched into near-Earth orbit a solar mass-ejection imager (SMEI) that is capable
of measuring sunlight Thomson-scattered from heliospheric electrons from elongations to as …

Simultaneous observation of ionospheric plasma bubbles and mesospheric gravity waves during the SpreadFEx Campaign

H Takahashi, MJ Taylor, PD Pautet… - Annales …, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
During the Spread F Experiment campaign, under NASA Living with a Star (LWS) program,
carried out in the South American Magnetic Equator region from 22 September to 8 …

Concentric gravity waves in the mesosphere generated by deep convective plumes in the lower atmosphere near Fort Collins, Colorado

J Yue, SL Vadas, CY She, T Nakamura… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Gravity waves in the mesopause region (80–105 km) may induce perturbations in OH
Meinal Band emissions at∼ 87 km. These perturbations can be observed by ground‐based …

Concentric gravity waves over northern China observed by an airglow imager network and satellites

J Xu, Q Li, J Yue, L Hoffmann… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The first no‐gap OH airglow all‐sky imager network was established in northern China in
February 2012. The network is composed of six all‐sky airglow imagers that make …

Advanced mesospheric temperature mapper for high-latitude airglow studies

PD Pautet, MJ Taylor, WR Pendleton Jr, Y Zhao… - Applied …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Over the past 60 years, ground-based remote sensing measurements of the Earth's
mesospheric temperature have been performed using the nighttime hydroxyl (OH) emission …