Thermospheric poleward wind surge at midlatitudes during great storm intervals

SR Zhang, PJ Erickson, JC Foster… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We report a significant poleward surge in thermospheric winds at subauroral and
midlatitudes following the 17–18 March 2015 great geomagnetic storm. This premidnight …

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 …

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 …

Multiinstrument studies of thermospheric weather above Alaska

MG Conde, WA Bristow, DL Hampton… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We describe how space weather impacts thermospheric winds above Alaska, using an array
of ground and space‐based instrumentation. Forcing of the thermosphere is observed using …

Atmospheric scattering effects on ground‐based measurements of thermospheric vertical wind, horizontal wind, and temperature

BJ Harding, JJ Makela, J Qin, DJ Fisher… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Ground‐based Fabry‐Perot interferometers routinely observe large vertical winds in
the thermosphere, sometimes reaching over 100 m/s. These observations, which use the …

Investigating the 17 March 2013 geomagnetic storm impacts on the wholly coupled solar wind‐magnetosphere‐ionosphere‐thermosphere system‐of‐systems

I Horvath, BC Lovell - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we investigate the impacts of the 17 March 2013 strong geomagnetic storm on
the wholly coupled Solar Wind‐Magnetosphere‐Ionosphere‐Thermosphere system‐of …

MENTAT: A new wind model for Earth's thermosphere

PB Dandenault - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A global database of ionosonde hmF2 observations was used to develop a global database
of equivalent neutral winds, which was then used to develop a new empirical horizontal …

Assimilation of thermospheric measurements for ionosphere-thermosphere state estimation

DS Miladinovich, S Datta-Barua, GS Bust… - Radio …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a method that uses data assimilation to estimate ionospheric-thermospheric (IT)
states during midlatitude nighttime storm conditions. The algorithm Estimating Model …

Thermospheric weather as observed by ground‐based FPIs and modeled by GITM

BJ Harding, AJ Ridley, JJ Makela - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The first long‐term comparison of day‐to‐day variability (ie, weather) in the thermospheric
winds between a first‐principles model and data is presented. The definition of weather …

Spectral Contamination of the 6300 Å Emission in Single‐Etalon Fabry‐Perot Interferometers

RB Kerr, S Kapali, BJ Harding… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The spectral line profile of the atomic oxygen O1D2—3P2 transition near 6300 Å in the
airglow has been used for more than 50 years to extract neutral wind and temperature …