SA003
Composition, Wind, and Temperature Variability in the Mesosphere and Ionosphere/Thermosphere II

Monday, 7 December 2020: 17:30-18:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Andrew J Gerrard, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, Martin G Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Alan Geoffrey Burns, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Alan Geoffrey Burns, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States and Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
17:30
Welcoming Remarks
17:31
Understanding the details of the descent of mesospheric air following the 2013 elevated stratopause event (668115)
David E Siskind1, Fabrizio Sassi2, John Patrick McCormack3, V Lynn Harvey4, Cora Randall4, Mark Eugene Hervig5 and Scott M Bailey6, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (5)GATS Inc., Driggs, ID, United States, (6)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States
17:38
Tidal Response of the Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere to the Madden-Julian Oscillation (673960)
Komal Kumari1, Jens Oberheide1 and Xian Lu2, (1)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, (2)Clemson University, Physics and Astronomy, Clemson, SC, United States
17:45
New winds and temperature observations across turbopause (~100-120 km) by the upgraded Na lidar at Utah State University. (735861)
Tao Yuan1, Neal Criddle2 and Vincent B Wickwar2, (1)Utah State University, Physics, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
17:52
Traveling Atmospheric Disturbances in the Midlatitude Thermosphere: Coordinated Ground- and Space-Based Observations (682895)
Jonathan J Makela, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Luis Navarro, Instituto GeofĂ­sico del PerĂș, Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Lima, Peru; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Brian Joseph Harding, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Christoph R Englert, Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, Thomas J Immel, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA, United States and the ICON Team
17:59
Effective vertical diffusion by atmosphere gravity waves (Invited) (697472)
Hanli Liu, NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
18:06
A Report on the Small-Scale Variations in the Ionospheric Connections Explorer (ICON) Wind Data. (704192)
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
18:13
Aliasing problems in variability of migrating and nonmigrating tides in the middle atmosphere obtained from satellites, models and reanalyses datasets. (746284)
Uma Das, Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani, Kalyani, India and William E Ward, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
18:20
Discussion
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