SA007
Composition, Wind, and Temperature Variability in the Mesosphere and Ionosphere/Thermosphere
Session ID#: 157750
Session Description:
The composition, winds, and temperatures of Earth’s mesosphere and ionosphere/thermosphere are determined by the complex interplay of chemical, dynamical, and thermodynamic processes driven by forcing from both above and below. The forcing of these regions and the many different processes involved vary over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, hindering accurate determination of these fundamental parameters critical to satellite operations and radio communications. Past and current space missions, Veld campaigns, as well as theoretical and modeling advances, have led to a new understanding of how and why the dominant drivers of upper atmospheric composition, winds, and temperatures in these regions change over different spatial and temporal scales. This session, therefore, seeks to highlight various topics surrounding middle and upper atmospheric composition, wind, and temperature measurements, their variability, and the prominent mechanisms that drive their spatial, seasonal, and inter-annual variability from theoretical, observational, and modeling perspectives.
Index Terms:
0340 Middle atmosphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0355 Thermosphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
2447 Modeling and forecasting [IONOSPHERE]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Conveners: Martin G Mlynczak1, Andrew J Gerrard2, Patrick Dandenault3 and Sovit Khadka2, (1)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States(2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States(3)Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, VA, United States
Greenhouse Gas Effects on the Antarctica Mesospheric Cooling Observed During the SH Minor SSW (1047164)
Sunkara Eswaraiah, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, India, Madanapalle, India, Niranjan Kumar Kondapalli, National center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Noida, India, M Venkat Ratnam, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Department of Space, Gadanki, India, Pramitha M, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India, Andrey Koval, Saint Petersburg State University, Petersburg, Russia and Venkata Chalapathi G, Govt degree college, Anathapur, India
Tidal Advection of Mesospheric Water Vapor Studied With SD-WACCM-X (1062371)
Neelakantan Koushik, Clemson University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson, SC, United States, Jens Oberheide, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States and Nicholas M Pedatella, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
TURBULENCE, THE RICHARDSON NUMBER (Ri), AND PARAMETRIC INSTABILITIES IN THE TURBO-PAUSE REGION (~100 km) (1069791)
Gary R Swenson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Channing P. Philbrick, University of Colorado, Electrical Engineering, Boulder, United States, Richard L Walterscheid, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States and James H Hecht, The Aerospace Corp, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Ionosonde-derived thermospheric meridional neutral wind over South Africa. (1071326)
Taiwo Ojo1, Zama Thobeka Katamzi-Joseph1, Patrick Dandenault2 and Jonathan J Makela3, (1)South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, VA, United States, (3)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Dynamics and variability of the MLT represented by UA-ICON (1071484)
Claudia Stolle1, Mozhgan Amiramjadi1, Gerd Baumgarten1, Sebastian Borchert2, Markus Kunze1, Hauke Schmidt3, Tarique Adnan Siddiqui1, Yosuke Yamazaki1 and Christoph Zuelicke1, (1)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (2)Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Effect on TEC and Horizontal Component of Earth’s Magnetic Field due to Super Intense Geomagnetic Storms (1073645)
Drabindra Pandit, Institute of Science and Technology , Tribhuvan University, Physics, Kathmandu, Nepal, Narayan Chapagain, San Jose, CA, United States; Amrit Campus, Tribhuvan University, Department of Physics, Kathmandu, Nepal and Binod Adhikari, St. Xavier's College, Kathmandu, NEPAL
Lower thermosphere circulations during geomagnetic storms (Invited) (1074962)
Jia Yue, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States, Jack Wang, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States
Climatology of the Quasi 5-Day Wave in the Polar Summer Mesosphere and its Influence on the Onset of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (1091492)
Brentha Thurairajah1, Scott Martin Bailey1, V Lynn Harvey2, Cora Randall3 and Jeffrey Allen France4, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP & Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)White Ridge Solutions, LLC, Frederick, MD, United States
Mesopause and Thermosphere: Neutral Temperature Characterization of ICON (1094372)
Omar Alamin1,2, Erdal Yiğit3 and Douglas E. Rowland1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Department Physics and Astronomy, Fairfax, United States, (3)George Mason University Fairfax, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Fairfax, VA, United States
Model Simulation of Future Polar Mesospheric Clouds Trends in CMIP6-WACCM6 Under Different Development Scenarios (1095563)
Wandi Yu, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, Rolando R Garcia, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Jia Yue, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States; Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States and Martin G Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
"Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Summer Wind Variability over Nearly Two Decades at Middle and High Latitudes" (1102218)
Juliana Jaen1, Toralf Renkwitz1, Jorge Luis Chau1, Huixin Liu2, Christoph Jacobi3, Masaki Tsutsumi4 and Njal Gulbrandsen5, (1)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Radar Remote Sensing, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (2)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (3)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (4)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, (5)Tromsø Geophysical Observatory, Tromsø, Norway
Dynamics of the polar mesopause region inferred by the 12 years of OH airglow observation at Syowa Station, Antarctic (1102755)
Satoshi Ishii1, Hidehiko Suzuki1, Yoshimasa Tanaka2,3, Masaki Tsutsumi3,4, Makoto Taguchi5, Mitsumu K Ejiri3,4, Takanori Nishiyama3,4 and Akira Kadokura2,3, (1)Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, (2)ROIS-DS Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, (3)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, (4)SOKENDAI Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa, Japan, (5)Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Swarm in-situ neutral horizontal winds based on Swarm plasma and neutral density measurements (1104298)
Timothy Kodikara1, Claudia Borries1, Ehsan Forootan2, Eelco Doornbos3 and Christian Siemes4, (1)German Aerospace Center Neustrelitz, Neustrelitz, Germany, (2)Geodesy Group, Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Coupling Fluid and Particle Atmospheric Models to Simulate the Thermosphere-Exosphere Transition Region (1117824)
Sarah Luettgen1, Eric K Sutton2 and Jeffrey P Thayer1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, United States
A Reassessment of the Exosphere Temperature Variation during the Period 2000-2001 (1117948)
Dmytro V. Kotov1, Edwin Mierkiewicz2, Susan M Nossal3, Philip G Richards4, Oleksandr V. Bogomaz1, Brandon Myers5, Maryna O. Reznychenko1, Igor F. Domnin6, Vladimir Truhlik7 and Taras G. Zhivolup1, (1)Institute of Ionosphere, Kharkiv, Ukraine, (2)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (3)Univ Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (4)The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (5)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Physical Sciences, Daytona Beach, United States, (6)Institute of ionosphere, Kharkiv, Ukraine, (7)Institute of Atmospheric Physics CAS, Department of Ionosphere and Aeronomy, Prague, Czech Republic
Multi-site Fabry-Perot Interferometer Measurements of Thermospheric Neutral Winds and Temperatures in Western South America (1121389)
Luis Navarro, University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, United States, John W Meriwether, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center of Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States and Carlos R. Martinis, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States
Nitric Oxide in the Polar Winter Observed by the Sub-Millimeter Radiometer (SMR) (1123805)
Scott Martin Bailey1, Brentha Thurairajah1, Cora Randall2, Lynn Harvey3, Kristell Pérot4 and Donal P Murtagh5, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP & Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Chalmers University of Technology, Space, Earth and Environment, Gothenburg, Sweden, (5)Chalmers University, Göteburg, Sweden
Investigating Large Winds and Shears Near the Turbopause Region and Their Correlation with the Small-Scale Waves in the Upper Mesosphere (1128746)
Tao Yuan1, Kenneth Zia2, Pierre-Dominique Pautet3, Yucheng Zhao4 and Michael J Taylor2, (1)Utah State University, Physics, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (4)Ctr for Atmosp & Space Sci, Logan, UT, United States
Climatology of Dayside E-region Neutral Wind Shears from ICON-MIGHTI Observations (1129287)
Minjing LI, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, United States, Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Brian J Harding, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Scott England, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Thermospheric Molecular Oxygen Density via Stellar Occultations Measured by SORCE (1129773)
Amelia Lee, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States, Joshua Peter Elliott, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Edward Thiemann, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Comparison of Observations and WACCM-X Simulations of Multi-decadal Variability in Thermospheric Hydrogen (1133488)
Susan M Nossal, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Physics, Madison, WI, United States, Edwin Mierkiewicz, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Liying Qian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, Joseph M McInerney, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, R. Carey Woodard, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, United States, L. Matthew Haffner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States, Arianna Ranabhat, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Brandon Myers, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Physical Sciences, Daytona Beach, United States
Variability of the MLT Tides during September 2019 Minor Sudden Stratospheric Warming (1134347)
Gourav Mitra1,2, Amitava Guharay1, Paulo Prado Batista3, Ricardo Buriti4 and Tracy Moffat-Griffin5, (1)Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Physics, Ahmedabad, India, (3)National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil, (4)Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Campina Grande, Brazil, (5)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Comparison of neutral winds at 94 km measured by MIGHTI and meteor radar in daytime and nighttime over South Korea (1135386)
Jaewook Lee1,2, Young-Sil Kwak1,2, Hosik Kam1, Hyosub Kil3, Jeong-Heon Kim1, Jaeheung Park1, Yang Tae-yong1 and Changsup Lee4, (1)KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (4)Korea Polar Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Incheon, South Korea
Abrupt Change in the Lower Thermospheric Mean Meridional Circulation during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and its Impact on Trace Species (1135952)
Jiarong Zhang1, Yvan Orsolini2,3 and Var Limpasuvan1, (1)Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, United States, (2)Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway, (3)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
2019 Southern Hemispheric SSW triggered Q6DW-Tide-GW interactions observed by meteor radars at 30ºS (1139492)
Zishun Qiao1, Alan Liu1, Nicholas M Pedatella2, Gunter Stober3, Iain M Reid4, Javier Fuentes5 and Chris Adami6, (1)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Physical Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)IAP, Kuehlungsborn, Germany, (4)The University of Adelaide, School of Physical Sciences, Adelaide, SA, Australia, (5)Gemini Observatory, Southern Operations Center, Av. Juan Cisternas 1500, c/o AURA casilla 603, La Serena, Chile, (6)ATRAD Pty Ltd., Thebarton, SA, Australia
Multi-satellite and ground-based instrument data assimilation analysis of shears in the lower thermosphere (1153486)
Rafael Luiz Araujo de Mesquita, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Alex Chartier, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, Brian J Harding, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Nicholas M Pedatella, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Hanli Liu, NCAR, Boulder, United States
Modeling the Thermospheric Response to Solar and Geomagnetic Drivers during the Feb 2022 Starlink incident (1154363)
Joshua Pettit, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Katherine Garcia-Sage, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Philip Chamberlin, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Tzu-Wei Fang, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States
Density Profile Results from the Endurance Sounding Rocket Mission (1157766)
Diana J Swanson, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, James H Clemmons, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Lance Davis, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, Glyn Collinson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Alex Glocer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
First Results from the Endurance Neutral Mass Spectrograph (1158493)
Lance Davis1, James H Clemmons2, Diana J Swanson1, Glyn Collinson3 and Alex Glocer4, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (4)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Vertical Winds in the Midlatitude F-region Ionosphere: Measurement Technique, Validation, Seasonal and Solar cycle variability (1165828)
Robert B Kerr1, Sudha Kapali1, Juanita Riccobono1, Michael A Migliozzi1, Jonas Rodrigues de Souza2, Christiano Garnett Marques Brum3, Pedrina Terra4, Christian Cortes4, Carlos Perez4 and Raul Garcia4, (1)Computational Physics Inc., Lowell, MA, United States, (2)INPE - National Institute for Space Research, São Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (3)Arecibo Observatory, Space and Atmospheric Science, Arecibo, PR, United States, (4)Arecibo Observatory, Space and Atmospheric Science, Arecibo, United States
Observations of winds and waves in the mid-latitude MLT made by the MANGO DASI network (Invited) (1166636)
Jonathan J Makela, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Asti Bhatt, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Brian J Harding, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
Thermospheric Wind Dynamics over American Low-latitude and their Plausible Effects on Ionospheric Irregularities (1166661)
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, Mariangel Fedrizzi, NOAA/SWPC - University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and John W Meriwether, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center of Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States
Climatological variability of the limiting flux of hydrogen in the terrestrial exosphere as observed by TIMED/SABER (1170712)
Pratik Joshi, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Lara Waldrop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Gary R Swenson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Gravity Wave Influences on Pre-Conditioning of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Their Latitudinal Variability (1173787)
Chihoko Y Cullens, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Brentha Thurairajah, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Lynn Harvey, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Larisa P Goncharenko, MIT, Pepperell, United States and Erich Becker, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, United States
Cubesat-class instruments for measuring thermospheric winds in situ (1181330)
James H Clemmons1, Diana J Swanson2, Lance Davis2, Colin Frost2 and Dominic Puopolo1, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States
The Effects of the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Eruption in Chile on Geocoronal Hydrogen Balmer-alpha Emissions (1182325)
Arianna Ranabhat, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Susan M Nossal, Univ Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, L. Matthew Haffner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States, Edwin Mierkiewicz, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States and R. Carey Woodard, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, United States
New Understandings Gained on the Lidar Measurements of Sensible Heat and Meteoric Na Fluxes in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere at McMurdo, Antarctica (1200606)
Xinzhao Chu1, Chester S Gardner2, Xianxin Li3 and Ying-Tsen Cissi Lin3, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
