SA003-06
A Report on the Small-Scale Variations in the Ionospheric Connections Explorer (ICON) Wind Data.

Monday, 7 December 2020: 18:06
Virtual
Colin Charles Triplett1, Scott England2, Brian Joseph Harding1, Christoph R Englert3, Jonathan J Makela4, Kenneth David Marr3, John Harlander5, Yen-Jung Joanne Wu6, Thomas J Immel7 and ICON Team, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia, VA, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)SCSU, St Cloud, MN, United States, (6)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (7)Univ of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
Recorded Presentation
Abstract:
NASA’s latest explorer mission, the Ionospheric Connections Explorer (ICON), was launched on 10 October 2019. ICON has a suite of instruments capable of measuring temperatures, winds, and composition in the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere (MLT) simultaneously. These data are critical to understanding the large-scale temporal and spatial dynamics of the MLT. As data has been collected, however, the ICON team has noticed nearly ever-present, small-scale variations (1000-2000 km horizontal scales, tens of km vertical scales, and persistence > 5-8 minutes) in the wind data attributed to the thermospheric wind field. We report on our current understanding of these small-scale variations.
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