Infrasound from convective storms: Examining the evidence

TM Georges - Reviews of Geophysics, 1973 - Wiley Online Library
Two kinds of waves, infrasonic pressure fluctuations recorded on the ground and certain
wavelike fluctuations in ionospheric phase height recorded by ground‐based radio …

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 …

Concentric waves and short‐period oscillations observed in the ionosphere after the 2013 Moore EF5 tornado

M Nishioka, T Tsugawa, M Kubota… - Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We detected clear concentric waves and short‐period oscillations in the ionosphere after an
Enhanced Fujita scale (EF) 5 tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma, US, on 20 May 2013 using …

The ISL Langmuir probe experiment processing onboard DEMETER: Scientific objectives, description and first results

JP Lebreton, S Stverak, P Travnicek… - Planetary and Space …, 2006 - Elsevier
The DEMETER Langmuir probe experiment, called “Instrument Sonde de Langmuir”(ISL),
has been designed for in situ measurements of the bulk parameters of the ionospheric …

Effects on the ionosphere due to phenomena occurring below it

E Kazimirovsky, M Herraiz, BA De la Morena - Surveys in Geophysics, 2003 - Springer
The terrestrial thermosphere and ionosphere form the most variable part of theEarth's
atmosphere. Because our society depends on technological systems thatcan be affected by …

Gravity wave penetration into the thermosphere: sensitivity to solar cycle variations and mean winds

DC Fritts, SL Vadas - Annales Geophysicae, 2008 - angeo.copernicus.org
We previously considered various aspects of gravity wave penetration and effects at
mesospheric and thermospheric altitudes, including propagation, viscous effects on wave …

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 …

Influence of solar variability on gravity wave structure and dissipation in the thermosphere from tropospheric convection

SL Vadas, DC Fritts - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the role convection plays in the thermosphere using deep convection and ray
trace models with a general dissipative anelastic GW dispersion relation. In the absence of …

The phases and amplitudes of gravity waves propagating and dissipating in the thermosphere: Theory

SL Vadas, MJ Nicolls - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We derive the high‐frequency, compressible, dissipative dispersion and polarization
relations for linear acoustic‐gravity waves (GWs) and acoustic waves (AWs) in a single …