Horizontal and vertical propagation and dissipation of gravity waves in the thermosphere from lower atmospheric and thermospheric sources

SL Vadas - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The dissipation of high‐frequency gravity waves (GWs) in the thermosphere is primarily due
to kinematic viscosity and thermal diffusivity. Recently, an anelastic GW dispersion relation …

Generation of large‐scale gravity waves and neutral winds in the thermosphere from the dissipation of convectively generated gravity waves

SL Vadas, H Liu - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We study the response of the thermosphere and ionosphere to the dissipation of gravity
waves (GWs) excited by a deep convective plume on 1 October 2005 at 52.5° W, 15.0° S …

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 …

Concentric secondary gravity waves in the thermosphere and ionosphere over the continental United States on March 25–26, 2015 from deep convection

SL Vadas, I Azeem - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the total electron content (TEC) from GPS receivers over the United States on
March 25–26, 2015. We observe partial to nearly fully concentric rings of traveling …

Propagation characteristics of nighttime mesospheric and thermospheric waves observed by optical mesosphere thermosphere imagers at middle and low latitudes

K Shiokawa, Y Otsuka, T Ogawa - Earth, planets and space, 2009 - Springer
We review measurements of nighttime atmospheric/ionospheric waves in the upper
atmosphere in Japan, Indonesia, and Australia, using all-sky airglow imagers of optical …

A global view of gravity waves in the thermosphere simulated by a general circulation model

Y Miyoshi, H Fujiwara, H Jin… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In order to study the dynamical role of gravity waves (GWs) propagating upward from the
lower atmosphere to the thermosphere, numerical simulation using a high‐resolution …

Numerical modeling of the large‐scale neutral and plasma responses to the body forces created by the dissipation of gravity waves from 6 h of deep convection in …

SL Vadas, HL Liu - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We study the response of the thermosphere and ionosphere to gravity waves (GWs) excited
by 6 h of deep convection in Brazil on the evening of 01 October 2005 via the use of …

Lidar observations of persistent gravity waves with periods of 3–10 h in the Antarctic middle and upper atmosphere at McMurdo (77.83 S, 166.67 E)

C Chen, X Chu, J Zhao, BR Roberts… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Persistent, dominant, and large‐amplitude gravity waves with 3–10 h periods and vertical
wavelengths~ 20–30 km are observed in temperatures from the stratosphere to lower …

Characteristics of the quiet‐time hot spot gravity waves observed by GOCE over the Southern Andes on 5 July 2010

SL Vadas, S Xu, J Yue, K Bossert… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze quiet‐time data from the Gravity Field and Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite
as it overpassed the Southern Andes at z≃ 275 km on 5 July 2010 at 23 UT. We extract the …

Satellite observations of middle atmosphere–thermosphere vertical coupling by gravity waves

QT Trinh, M Ern, E Doornbos, P Preusse… - Annales …, 2018 - angeo.copernicus.org
Atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) are essential for the dynamics of the middle atmosphere.
Recent studies have shown that these waves are also important for the thermosphere …