Variability and predictability of the space environment as related to lower atmosphere forcing

HL Liu - Space weather, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Earth's thermosphere and ionosphere (TI) are characterized by perpetual variability as
integral parts of the atmosphere system, with intermittent disturbances from solar and …

The global-scale observations of the limb and disk (GOLD) mission

RW Eastes, WE McClintock, AG Burns… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
The Earth's thermosphere and ionosphere constitute a dynamic system that varies daily in
response to energy inputs from above and from below. This system can exhibit a significant …

Migrating and nonmigrating diurnal tides in the middle and upper atmosphere excited by tropospheric latent heat release

ME Hagan, JM Forbes - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The global‐scale wave model (GSWM) is used to investigate mesospheric and lower
thermospheric migrating and nonmigrating diurnal tidal components that propagate upward …

Migrating and nonmigrating semidiurnal tides in the upper atmosphere excited by tropospheric latent heat release

ME Hagan, JM Forbes - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We overview the results of a series of global‐scale wave model (GSWM) calculations we
designed to quantify the mesospheric and lower thermospheric migrating and nonmigrating …

Challenges to understanding the Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere

RA Heelis, A Maute - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss, in a limited way, some of the challenges to advancing our understanding and
description of the coupled plasma and neutral gas that make up the ionosphere and …

Ionospheric variability due to planetary waves and tides for solar minimum conditions

HL Liu, W Wang, AD Richmond… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Large ionospheric variability is found at low to middle latitudes when a quasi‐stationary
planetary wave is specified in the winter stratosphere in the National Center for Atmospheric …

Thermosphere extension of the whole atmosphere community climate model

HL Liu, BT Foster, ME Hagan… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In atmospheric and space environment studies it is key to understand and to quantify the
coupling of atmospheric regions and the solar impacts on the whole atmosphere system …

On the composite response of the MLT to major sudden stratospheric warming events with elevated stratopause

V Limpasuvan, YJ Orsolini, A Chandran… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Based on a climate‐chemistry model (constrained by reanalyses below~ 50 km), the zonal‐
mean composite response of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) to major …

Monthly tidal temperatures 20–120 km from TIMED/SABER

X Zhang, JM Forbes, ME Hagan… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The SABER instrument on the TIMED satellite provides unprecedented geographical
coverage for the determination and study of atmospheric tides. However, the slow local time …

Sources of the traveling ionospheric disturbances observed by the ionospheric TIDDBIT sounder near Wallops Island on 30 October 2007

SL Vadas, G Crowley - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We model the gravity waves (GWs) excited by Tropical Storm (TS) Noel at 0432 UT on 30
October 2007. Using forward ray tracing, we calculate the body forces which result from the …