Convection: the likely source of the medium-scale gravity waves observed in the OH airglow layer near Brasilia, Brazil, during the SpreadFEx campaign

SL Vadas, MJ Taylor, PD Pautet… - Annales …, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
Six medium-scale gravity waves (GWs) with horizontal wavelengths of λ H= 60–160 km were
detected on four nights by Taylor et al.(2009) in the OH airglow layer near Brasilia, at 15° S …

Ten year observations of gravity waves from thunderstorms in western Africa

E Blanc, T Farges, A Le Pichon… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A new study of gravity waves produced by thunderstorms was performed using continuous
recordings at the IS17 (Ivory Coast) infrasound station of the International Monitoring System …

Characteristics of mesospheric gravity waves near the magnetic equator, Brazil, during the SpreadFEx campaign

MJ Taylor, PD Pautet, AF Medeiros… - Annales …, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
As part of the SpreadFEx campaign, coordinated optical and radio measurements were
made from Brazil to investigate the occurrence and properties of equatorial Spread F, and to …

A coordinated study of 1 h mesoscale gravity waves propagating from Logan to Boulder with CRRL Na Doppler lidars and temperature mapper

X Lu, C Chen, W Huang, JA Smith… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We present the first coordinated study using two lidars at two separate locations to
characterize a 1 h mesoscale gravity wave event in the mesopause region. The …

Gravity wave characteristics from OH airglow imager over Maui

Z Li, AZ Liu, X Lu, GR Swenson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The gravity wave (GW) characteristics over Maui from 2002 to 2007 are deduced from OH
airglow imager. The dominant horizontal wavelength falls between 15 and 30 km. Intrinsic …

Climatology of short-period mesospheric gravity waves over Halley, Antarctica (76 S, 27 W)

K Nielsen, MJ Taylor, RE Hibbins, MJ Jarvis - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - Elsevier
We present a first detailed climatological study of individual quasi-monochromatic
mesospheric, short-period gravity-wave events observed over Antarctica. The …

Analysis of gravity waves structures visible in noctilucent cloud images

PD Pautet, J Stegman, CM Wrasse, K Nielsen… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2011 - Elsevier
The noctilucent clouds (NLC) are high-altitude bright cloud formations visible under certain
conditions from high-latitude places during the summer months. Even if the exact nature of …

An unusual mesospheric bore event observed at high latitudes over Antarctica

K Nielsen, MJ Taylor, RG Stockwell… - Geophysical Research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
All‐sky CCD observations of short‐period mesospheric gravity waves have been made from
Halley Station, Antarctica (76° S, 27° W). On 27 May, 2001, an unusual wave event …

HIRDLS observations of gravity wave momentum fluxes over the monsoon regions

CJ Wright, JC Gille - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) on NASA's
Aura satellite are used to quantify gravity wave momentum fluxes generated from monsoon …

Terrestrial exospheric dayside H-density profile at 3–15 Re from UVIS/HDAC and TWINS Lyman-α data combined

JH Zoennchen, HK Connor, J Jung… - Annales …, 2021 - angeo.copernicus.org
Terrestrial ecliptic dayside observations of the exospheric Lyman-α column intensity
between 3–15 Earth radii (R e) by UVIS/HDAC at CASSINI have been analysed to derive the …