TY - JOUR
T1 - Radar measurements of dynamics and layering processes in the 80-150 km region at Arecibo
AU - Mathews, J. D.
AU - Morton, Y. T.
N1 - Funding Information:
The AIDA campaign, the brainchild of Dr. Colin Hines, was conducted at Arecibo Observatory during the spring of 1989, and we acknowledge the excellent support we received from Drs. C. Hines, C. A. Tepley, and M. P. Sulzer. Arecibo Observatory of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center is run by Comell University under contract to the National Science Foundation. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation grant ATM 92-03947 to The Pennsylvania State University.
PY - 1994/9
Y1 - 1994/9
N2 - The Arecibo Initiative in Dynamics of the Atmosphere (AIDA) '89 and Overture to AIDA campaigns yielded 35 days, in four periods, of low-latitude Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) power profiles and derived electron concentration results. These results, along with results from the sodium lidar, have been used to study 80-150 km ion layers, the sodium layer, and the complex of dynamical processes involved in the formation of both ion and neutral sodium layers. Features of the ion layer motions reveal a wide range of dynamical processes ranging from multiday period waves, tides, and Acoustic Gravity Waves (AGWs) to geomagnetic storm effects and evidence of coupled neutral sodium and ion layering processes. Joint ISR and sodium lidar results point to localized instabilities in the combined tidal and AGW wind field and to the origins of sporadic E and sporadic sodium layers.
AB - The Arecibo Initiative in Dynamics of the Atmosphere (AIDA) '89 and Overture to AIDA campaigns yielded 35 days, in four periods, of low-latitude Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) power profiles and derived electron concentration results. These results, along with results from the sodium lidar, have been used to study 80-150 km ion layers, the sodium layer, and the complex of dynamical processes involved in the formation of both ion and neutral sodium layers. Features of the ion layer motions reveal a wide range of dynamical processes ranging from multiday period waves, tides, and Acoustic Gravity Waves (AGWs) to geomagnetic storm effects and evidence of coupled neutral sodium and ion layering processes. Joint ISR and sodium lidar results point to localized instabilities in the combined tidal and AGW wind field and to the origins of sporadic E and sporadic sodium layers.
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U2 - 10.1016/0273-1177(94)90128-7
DO - 10.1016/0273-1177(94)90128-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0039755121
SN - 0273-1177
VL - 14
SP - 153
EP - 160
JO - Advances in Space Research
JF - Advances in Space Research
IS - 9
ER -