The mesosphere and metals: Chemistry and changes

JMC Plane, W Feng, ECM Dawkins - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The subject of this review is the atmospheric chemistry of the metals which ablate from
meteoroids in the Earth, s upper atmosphere. The major meteoric species are Fe, Mg, Si …

Cosmic dust in the earth's atmosphere

JMC Plane - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This review discusses the magnitude of the cosmic dust input into the earth's atmosphere,
and the resulting impacts from around 100 km to the earth's surface. Zodiacal cloud …

A global atmospheric model of meteoric iron

W Feng, DR Marsh, MP Chipperfield… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The first global model of meteoric iron in the atmosphere (WACCM‐Fe) has been developed
by combining three components: the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model …

[HTML][HTML] Lower-thermosphere–ionosphere (LTI) quantities: current status of measuring techniques and models

M Palmroth, M Grandin, T Sarris… - Annales …, 2021 - angeo.copernicus.org
The lower-thermosphere–ionosphere (LTI) system consists of the upper atmosphere and the
lower part of the ionosphere and as such comprises a complex system coupled to both the …

Impacts of vertically propagating tides on the mean state of the ionosphere‐thermosphere system

M Jones Jr, JM Forbes, ME Hagan… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The National Center for Atmospheric Research Thermosphere‐Ionosphere‐
Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIE‐GCM) is utilized to understand the role that …

Inferring the global cosmic dust influx to the Earth's atmosphere from lidar observations of the vertical flux of mesospheric Na

CS Gardner, AZ Liu, DR Marsh, W Feng… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Estimates of the global influx of cosmic dust are highly uncertain, ranging from 0.4–110 t/d.
All meteoric debris that enters the Earth's atmosphere is eventually transported to the …

Tidal‐induced net transport effects on the oxygen distribution in the thermosphere

M Jones Jr, JM Forbes… - Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Through a series of numerical experiments performed with the National Center for
Atmospheric Research Thermosphere‐Ionosphere‐Mesosphere‐Electrodynamics General …

Vertical transport of sensible heat and meteoric Na by the complete temporal spectrum of gravity waves in the MLT above McMurdo (77.84 S, 166.67 E), Antarctica

X Chu, CS Gardner, X Li, CYT Lin - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We report the first lidar observations of vertical fluxes of sensible heat and meteoric Na from
78 to 110 km in late May 2020 at McMurdo, Antarctica. The measurements include …

High-midlatitude ionosphere response to major stratospheric warming

BG Shpynev, VI Kurkin, KG Ratovsky… - Earth, Planets and …, 2015 - Springer
This study investigates the impact of dynamical processes in the neutral atmosphere on the
high-midlatitude ionosphere during two sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events. For …

Middle atmosphere dynamical sources of the semiannual oscillation in the thermosphere and ionosphere

M Jones Jr, JT Emmert, DP Drob… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The strong global semiannual oscillation (SAO) in thermospheric density has been observed
for five decades, but definitive knowledge of its source has been elusive. We use the …