Thermospheric neutral wind measurements and investigations across the African region—A review

D Okoh, A Bounhir, JB Habarulema, B Rabiu… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper briefly reviews studies of thermospheric neutral wind dynamics over the African
region. The literature includes a review of the observations of neutral winds over five African …

MANGO: An optical network to study the dynamics of the Earth's upper atmosphere

AN Bhatt, BJ Harding, JJ Makela… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mid‐latitude All‐sky‐imaging Network for Geophysical Observations (MANGO)
employs a combination of two powerful optical techniques used to observe the dynamics of …

Interhemispheric asymmetry of the equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) on the African sector over 3 years (2014–2016): Effects of thermospheric meridional winds

A Loutfi, F Pitout, A Bounhir… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observations made by the Langmuir probes on board the Swarm satellites and the Fabry–
Perot interferometer installed at the Oukaimeden Observatory in Morocco have been …

First results on characteristics of nighttime MSTIDs observed over South Africa: Influence of thermospheric wind and sporadic E

ZT Katamzi‐Joseph, MA Grawe… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports the climatology of medium‐scale traveling ionospheric disturbances
(MSTIDs) observed between September 2018 and August 2019 in the nighttime redline …

The ionospheric dynamics of the african sector responding to a severe geomagnetic storm; the storm of 3–5 november 2021

W Rukundo - Space Weather, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The sudden storm commencement (SSC) of 3 November 2021, a severe storm was detected
through disturbances in magnetospheric and ring current systems at around 1942 UT. We …

A climatology of the nighttime thermospheric winds over Sutherland, South Africa

TT Ojo, ZT Katamzi-Joseph, KT Chu, MA Grawe… - Advances in Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a climatology of nighttime thermospheric neutral winds between February 2018
and January 2019 measured by a Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) located in Sutherland …

Statistical analysis of ionospheric mid-latitude trough over the Northern Hemisphere derived from GPS total electron content data

N Yang, H Le, L Liu - Earth, Planets and Space, 2015 - Springer
This study statistically investigated the seasonal variation, magnetic local time (MLT)
variation, geomagnetic activity dependence, and solar activity dependence of the mid …

Storm‐time thermospheric winds over Peru

LA Navarro, BG Fejer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We used Fabry‐Perot Interferometer (FPI) observations at Jicamarca, Nasca, and
Arequipa, Peru, from 2011 to 2017 to study the nighttime zonal and meridional disturbance …

Upper thermospheric winds: Forcing, variability, and effects

W Wang, AG Burns, J Liu - Upper atmosphere dynamics and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter provides a brief review of recent advances in observing and understanding
upper thermospheric winds in the altitude range of the ionospheric F 2‐region, and …

Influence of zonal wind velocity variation on equatorial plasma bubble occurrences over Southeast Asia

I Sarudin, NSA Hamid, M Abdullah… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The present study aims to investigate the influence of the zonal wind velocity on equatorial
plasma bubble (EPB) occurrences over Southeast Asia. The observation of the EPB …