TIMED Doppler Interferometer: Overview and recent results

TL Killeen, Q Wu, SC Solomon… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The Thermosphere‐Ionosphere‐Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite
carries a limb‐scanning Fabry‐Perot interferometer designed to perform remote‐sensing …

Mesosphere inversion layers and stratosphere temperature enhancements

JW Meriwether, AJ Gerrard - Reviews of Geophysics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
It has been known for at least 30 years that vertically narrow thermal layers form within the
middle atmosphere. Two types of temperature enhancements, the low‐latitude to midlatitude …

Migrating and nonmigrating diurnal tides in the middle and upper atmosphere excited by tropospheric latent heat release

ME Hagan, JM Forbes - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The global‐scale wave model (GSWM) is used to investigate mesospheric and lower
thermospheric migrating and nonmigrating diurnal tidal components that propagate upward …

GSWM‐98: Results for migrating solar tides

ME Hagan, MD Burrage, JM Forbes… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
We report on new global‐scale wave model (GSWM) predictions for the migrating solar tide
in the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and lower thermosphere. The model revision …

Climatology of the semiannual oscillation of the tropical middle atmosphere

RR Garcia, TJ Dunkerton… - Journal of …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
We have used a variety of satellite, ground‐based, and in situ observations to construct a
climatology of the semiannual oscillation (SAO) of the tropical middle atmosphere. The …

On the importance of gravity waves in the middle atmosphere and their parameterization in general circulation models

C McLandress - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 1998 - Elsevier
This tutorial paper discusses the problem of parameterizing unresolved gravity waves in
general circulation models (GCMs) of the middle atmosphere. For readers who are …

Thermosphere extension of the whole atmosphere community climate model

HL Liu, BT Foster, ME Hagan… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In atmospheric and space environment studies it is key to understand and to quantify the
coupling of atmospheric regions and the solar impacts on the whole atmosphere system …

Diurnal nonmigrating tides from TIMED Doppler Interferometer wind data: Monthly climatologies and seasonal variations

J Oberheide, Q Wu, TL Killeen… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
TIMED Doppler Interferometer (TIDI) measurements of zonal and meridional winds in the
mesosphere/lower thermosphere are analyzed for diurnal nonmigrating tides (June 2002 to …

A theory of ionospheric response to upward‐propagating tides: Electrodynamic effects and tidal mixing effects

Y Yamazaki, AD Richmond - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The atmospheric tide at ionospheric heights is composed of those locally generated and
those propagated from below. The role of the latter in producing the variability of the daytime …

Monthly climatologies of zonal‐mean and tidal winds in the thermosphere as observed by ICON/MIGHTI during April 2020–March 2022

Y Yamazaki, BJ Harding, L Qiu, C Stolle… - Earth and Space …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Version 5 (v05) of the thermospheric wind data from the Michelson Interferometer
for Global High‐resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) instrument on the Ionospheric …