The equatorial electrojet

JM Forbes - Reviews of Geophysics, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
An integrated treatment of observations and models of the undisturbed equatorial electrojet
is presented. Previous reviews have concentrated on particular aspects of the electrojet …

Theoretical studies of atmospheric tides

JM Forbes, HB Garrett - Reviews of Geophysics, 1979 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in the theory of atmospheric tides since the monograph by Chapman and Lindzen
(1970) are comprehensively reviewed. Major developments include investigations of the …

Turbulence and stress owing to gravity wave and tidal breakdown

RS Lindzen - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
It has been suggested (Lindzen, 1967, 1968a, b; Lindzen and Blake, 1971; Hodges, 1969)
that turbulence in the upper mesosphere arises from the unstable breakdown of tides and …

Tidal and planetary waves

JM Forbes - The upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
This is a graduate student level tutorial on'atmospheric tdal and planetary waves for non-
dynamicists. The intent is to provide a basic understanding of the physics, mathematics, and …

Atmospheric tides: 1. Model description and results for the solar diurnal component

JM Forbes - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
The equations and boundary conditions governing tidal oscillations in a viscous, rotating,
spherical atmosphere from the surface to 400 km are formulated, including model …

Atmospheric tide: 2. The solar and lunar semidiurnal components

JM Forbes - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
Solar and lunar semidiurnal wind and temperature oscillations from the surface to 400 km
are simulated for average solar activity conditions utilizing the numerical tidal model …

Monthly tidal temperatures 20–120 km from TIMED/SABER

X Zhang, JM Forbes, ME Hagan… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The SABER instrument on the TIMED satellite provides unprecedented geographical
coverage for the determination and study of atmospheric tides. However, the slow local time …

Troposphere‐thermosphere tidal coupling as measured by the SABER instrument on TIMED during July–September 2002

JM Forbes, J Russell, S Miyahara… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Coupling between the troposphere and lower thermosphere due to upward propagating
tides is investigated using temperatures measured from the SABER instrument on the …

Vertical coupling by solar semidiurnal tides in the thermosphere from ICON/MIGHTI measurements

JM Forbes, J Oberheide, X Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wind measurements from the Michelson Interferometer for Global High‐resolution
Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) instrument on the Ionospheric CONnections (ICON) …

The potential role of stratospheric ozone in the stratosphere‐ionosphere coupling during stratospheric warmings

LP Goncharenko, AJ Coster, RA Plumb… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The recent discovery of large ionospheric disturbances associated with sudden
stratospheric warmings (SSW) has challenged the current understanding of mechanisms …