Global dynamics of the MLT

AK Smith - Surveys in Geophysics, 2012 - Springer
The transition between the middle atmosphere and the thermosphere is known as the MLT
region (for mesosphere and lower thermosphere). This area has some characteristics that …

Equatorial and low latitude ionospheric effects during sudden stratospheric warming events: Ionospheric effects during SSW events

JL Chau, LP Goncharenko, BG Fejer, HL Liu - Space Science Reviews, 2012 - Springer
There are several external sources of ionospheric forcing, including these are solar wind-
magnetospheric processes and lower atmospheric winds and waves. In this work we review …

Ionospheric signatures of sudden stratospheric warming: Ion temperature at middle latitude

L Goncharenko, SR Zhang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) is a large‐scale meteorological process in the winter
hemisphere lasting several days or weeks. The Incoherent Scatter World Day campaign …

The evolution of the stratopause during the 2006 major warming: Satellite data and assimilated meteorological analyses

GL Manney, K Krüger, S Pawson… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave Limb Sounder and Sounding of the Atmosphere with Broadband Emission
Radiometry data provide the first opportunity to characterize the four‐dimensional …

Whole atmosphere modeling: Connecting terrestrial and space weather

RA Akmaev - Reviews of Geophysics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
At the turn of the century RG Roble advanced an ambitious program of developing an
atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) extending from the surface to the exosphere …

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 …

Multi‐step vertical coupling during the January 2017 sudden stratospheric warming

E Becker, L Goncharenko, VL Harvey… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyzes a simulation of the Arctic winter 2016–2017 with focus on multi‐step
vertical coupling (MSVC) by primary, secondary, and higher‐order gravity waves (GWs). We …

Latitudinal and longitudinal variability of mesospheric winds and temperatures during stratospheric warming events

P Hoffmann, W Singer, D Keuer, WK Hocking… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2007 - Elsevier
Continuous MF and meteor radar observations allow detailed studies of winds in the
mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) as well as temperatures around the …

Case studies of the mesospheric response to recent minor, major, and extended stratospheric warmings

DE Siskind, SD Eckermann… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We have studied the mesospheric response to two recent stratospheric warmings by
performing short‐term forecasts at medium (1.5°) and high (0.5°) spatial resolution under …

A whole atmosphere model simulation of the impact of a sudden stratospheric warming on thermosphere dynamics and electrodynamics

T Fuller‐Rowell, F Wu, R Akmaev… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM) has been used to explore the possible physical
connection between a sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) and the dynamics and …