SA012
Next Generation Thermospheric Winds
Session ID#: 81614
Session Description:
Thermospheric neutral winds play a decisive role in controlling various geospace processes, the coupling between different layers in the upper atmosphere, the redistribution of plasma and neutral composition, the generation of waves and density structures, etc. These phenomena perturb the space environment/ medium and can severely impact modern space-based technologies. Measurements and understandings of thermospheric wind dynamics over a full diurnal cycle are required to resolve these issues. The availability of space-based (NASA-GOLD, ICON, etc.) and ground-based observations creates new opportunities for multi-disciplinary and multi-instrument collaborations to advance the current understandings of the thermospheric wind dynamics, and to validate existing wind models. This session welcomes contributions on all aspects of research aimed to address the current challenges associated with our understanding of thermospheric winds, as well as efforts for advancing our understanding such winds across local, regional, and global-scales from theoretical, observational, and modeling perspectives.
Index Terms:
2447 Modeling and forecasting [IONOSPHERE]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
7894 Instruments and techniques [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7944 Ionospheric effects on radio waves [SPACE WEATHER]
Primary Convener: Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Conveners: Patrick Dandenault, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Andrew J Gerrard, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison: Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Empirical Modeling of Thermospheric Dynamics; Past, Present, Future (Invited) (491868)
Douglas Patrick Drob, Naval Research Lab, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, Manbharat Singh Dhadly, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and John T Emmert, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States
New Advances in Thermospheric Wind Observations (Invited) (493087)
Qian Wu, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Ruth Segal Lieberman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Scott Sewell, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
MIGHTI (Michelson Interferometer for Global High-resolution Thermospheric Imaging): The Wind and Temperature Instrument Onboard the NASA Ionospheric Connection (ICON) Mission (518896)
Christoph R Englert1, John Harlander2, Charles M Brown3, Kenneth David Marr4, Michael H Stevens4, Brian Joseph Harding5, Stephen B Mende6, Thomas J Immel7 and Jonathan J Makela5, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)SCSU, St Cloud, MN, United States, (3)US Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (5)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (6)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Univ of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
Incoherent Scatter Radar Observations of Auroral E-region Thermospheric Winds: Investigating Geomagnetic and Seasonal Variability (551322)
Stephen Roland Kaeppler1, Miguel Folkmar Larsen1, Roger H Varney2, Ashton Seth Reimer2 and Rafael Mesquita1, (1)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, (2)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
3D lower thermospheric wind fields using a meteor radar network (562316)
Brian Joseph Harding1, Jorge Luis Chau2, Juan Miguel Urco2, Juha Vierinen3, Harikrishnan charuvil Asokan4 and Matthias Clahsen4, (1)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Radar Remote Sensing, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (3)Univrsity of Tromsø, Tromso, Norway, (4)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany
Climatology of Summer Neutral Winds Measured With the SOFDI Instrument Over a Full 24-Hour Cycle in the Equatorial Thermosphere (564305)
Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States, Andrew J Gerrard, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States and John W Meriwether, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center of Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States
Observations of Vigorous Vertical Thermospheric Neutral Winds at High Latitudes (588461)
John W Meriwether1, Donald L Hampton2, Mark Conde2 and Cameron Westerhout3, (1)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center of Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Geophysical Institute Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States
