Thermospheric mass density: A review

JT Emmert - Advances in Space Research, 2015 - Elsevier
The mass density of Earth's thermosphere (∼ 90–600 km altitude) is a critical parameter for
low Earth orbit prediction because of the atmospheric drag on satellites in this region. In this …

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 …

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 …

Explicit global simulation of gravity waves in the thermosphere

E Becker, SL Vadas - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new version of the high‐resolution Kühlungsborn Mechanistic general
Circulation Model (KMCM) extended to z∼ 450 km. This model is called HIAMCM (HI …

Gravity wave initiation of equatorial spread F/plasma bubble irregularities based on observational data from the SpreadFEx campaign

MA Abdu, E Alam Kherani, IS Batista… - Annales …, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
The data from ground based experiments conducted during the 2005 SpreadFEx campaign
in Brazil are used, with the help of theoretical model calculations, to investigate the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Day-to-day and short-term variabilities in the equatorial plasma bubble/spread F irregularity seeding and development

MA Abdu - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2019 - Springer
The background ionospheric conditions shaped by sunset electrodynamic processes are
responsible for the development of equatorial plasma bubble (EPB)/equatorial spread F …