The ionospheric connection explorer mission: Mission goals and design

TJ Immel, SL England, SB Mende, RA Heelis… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, is a new NASA Explorer mission
that will explore the boundary between Earth and space to understand the physical …

The early results and validation of FORMOSAT‐7/COSMIC‐2 space weather products: Global ionospheric specification and Ne‐aided Abel electron density profile

CY Lin, CCH Lin, JY Liu, PK Rajesh… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The FORMOSAT‐7/COSMIC‐2 (F7/C2) satellite mission was launched on 25 June
2019 with six low‐Earth‐orbit satellites and can provide thousands of daily radio occultation …

Exploring Earth's atmosphere with radio occultation: contributions to weather, climate and space weather

RA Anthes - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2011 - amt.copernicus.org
The launch of the proof-of-concept mission GPS/MET (Global Positioning
System/Meteorology) in 1995 began a revolution in profiling Earth's atmosphere through …

Tidal variability in the ionospheric dynamo region

JM Forbes, X Zhang, S Palo, J Russell… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The seasonal and interannual variability of migrating (Sun‐synchronous) and nonmigrating
solar atmospheric tides at altitudes between 100 and 116 km are investigated using …

The geospace response to variable inputs from the lower atmosphere: a review of the progress made by Task Group 4 of CAWSES-II

J Oberheide, K Shiokawa, S Gurubaran… - Progress in earth and …, 2015 - Springer
The advent of new satellite missions, ground-based instrumentation networks, and the
development of whole atmosphere models over the past decade resulted in a paradigm shift …

Tropospheric tides from 80 to 400 km: Propagation, interannual variability, and solar cycle effects

J Oberheide, JM Forbes, K Häusler… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Recent observations and model simulations demonstrate unequivocally that non‐Sun‐
synchronous (nonmigrating) tides due to deep tropical convection produce large …

Connections between deep tropical clouds and the Earth's ionosphere

ME Hagan, A Maute, RG Roble… - Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We report on a series of simulations with the National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR) thermosphere‐ionosphere‐mesosphere‐electrodynamics general circulation model …

Wavenumber‐4 patterns of the total electron content over the low latitude ionosphere

W Wan, L Liu, X Pi, ML Zhang, B Ning… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The global ionospheric maps (GIMs) produced by JPL are used to investigate the
longitudinal structure of the low latitude ionosphere. As a proxy of the ionization parameter …

Regulation of ionospheric plasma velocities by thermospheric winds

TJ Immel, BJ Harding, RA Heelis, A Maute… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Earth's equatorial ionosphere exhibits substantial and unpredictable day-to-day variations in
density and morphology. This presents challenges in preparing for adverse impacts on …

First zonal drift velocity measurement of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) from a geostationary orbit using GOLD data

DK Karan, RE Daniell, SL England… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global‐scale
Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) satellite takes far‐ultraviolet images of the Earth …