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The Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTI) have been developed to investigate the dynamics of the upper atmosphere through nocturnal airglow emissions. The OMTI consist of an imaging Fabry-Perot interf...
Simultaneous observations of the night airglow OH (6, 2) band emission intensity and rotational temperature, by a sky scanning airglow spectrophotometer, and meteor winds, by a middle and upper atmosphere rada...
This paper focuses on the effect of diabatic processes due to photochemical heating on long-period gravity waves in the stratosphere, mesosphere and lower thermosphere. A linear diabatic gravity wave model is ...
Airglow variability is a topic that has been studied for decades but an understanding of the role of the dynamical influence underlying this variability has only been achieved recently. The UARS dynamics instr...
Routine lidar observations are in progress at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan (36°N, 140°E), providing vertical profiles of ozone and temperature in the stratosphere and...
We present a new rocket instrument which measures total atmospheric density with great precision and resolution by Rayleigh scattering of infrared light. Comparison with a ground-based lidar shows: (a) both in...
Analysis of seven years (1990–1997) of measured temperature profiles in the mesopause region (84 to 102 km) at Fort Collins, CO (41°N, 105°W), shows that, after removing seasonal variations, there was an episo...
We present a model based analysis of rocket borne common volume measurements of electron number densities and aerosol charge densities during the ECHO campaign in 1994. During that campaign a sounding rocket w...
A linearized numerical model is used to simulate the propagation of stationary planetary waves through the stratosphere and mesosphere into the lower thermosphere. Wave forcing at the lower boundary has been s...
The behavior of the 5-day and 16-day waves in the mesopause region is examined by using a general circulation model. The results are as follows. The 5-day wave is largely unaffected by the zonal mean zonal win...
HRDI zonally averaged daytime temperatures are used to compute the gradient wind in the 65–105 km range. Results are compared with independently measured HRDI zonal mean zonal winds. The gradient wind captures...
In order to evaluate material transports in the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region, Lagrangian transport experiments are performed using wind fields simulated by the Kyushu University middle ...
Simultaneous observations with a sodium lidar in Wuhan, China (30.53°N, 114.37°E) and an MF radar in Yamagawa, Japan (31.20°N, 130.62°E) were conduced during the PREASA-2 campaign from Feb. 22 to March 15, 199...
In order to clarify the horizontal structure of the wavelike oscillation frequently observed in the night time sodium density profile with a small Gaussian half-width in the middle of the night and a broad dis...
An in-situ rocket technique using foil chaff is used to observe wind fields in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (80–98 km in altitude). We launched two micro-rockets at 1200 and 1315 UT on 14 January 1997 fr...
Technique appropriate to the analysis of lower thermospheric wind data recorded by global-scale networks of ground-based instruments are discussed. The S-transform technique is shown to be effective in the ana...
The seasonal variations of the zonal winds measured by meteor/MF radars and by the wind-imaging interferometer (WINDII) on board of the UARS satellite, are analyzed and compared with the ground-based Global Em...
Mesospheric winds are derived from HF radar observations of meteor echoes at Halley (76°S, 27°W), Antarctica. These meteor echoes are observed within the first range gates of the radar (less than 500 km) and a...
This paper is concerned with observations of the long-term behavior of Kelvin waves with the wave period ranging from 3 to 4 days, which are generally called an ultra-fast Kelvin (UFK) wave. Horizontal wind ve...
Zonal and meridional winds in the equatorial mesosphere and lower thermosphere (65–98 km) measured at two sites separated by 94° in longitude are used to study the zonal structure of planetary-scale waves. The...
The Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) has operated the Wakkanai MF radar since September of 1996, and Yamagawa MF radar since August of 1994. Recent observation results on variations of mean wind, wind ...
This paper presents evidence for a quasi-stationary Kelvin wave of zonal wavenumber 1 that is forced in situ in the upper mesosphere and propagates upward from there. Although large scale quasi-stationary long...
We present radar measurements of the 12-hour wave, a zonal wavenumber 1 westward propagating wave that exists in the southern polar mesopause region winds (Hernandez et al., 1993; Forbes et al., 1995). MF radar m...
WINDII, the Wind Imaging Interferometer on the Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite measures winds and emission rates from selected excited metastable species. Here we report on measurements of the atmospheric...
We report on a series of numerical experiments conducted with the global-scale wave model (GSWM) and designed to investigate the effects of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) on the migrating diurnal tide. O...
Recent satellite and radar observations suggest that the semiannual oscillation (SAO) in the mesosphere is modulated by the stratospheric quasibiennial oscillation (QBO). The modulation is only apparent during...
Observations of winds and gravity waves (GW) by MF radars from the Arctic to the Equator are used to provide frequency spectra and spectral variances of horizontal motions, and information on the predominant a...
During the last two decades many estimates of turbulence strength have been made by a variety of techniques in the mesosphere above northern Norway. We have assimilated many of these results and present them i...
Generation of internal gravity waves (IGWs) by tropospheric convections and vertical propagation of the generated IGWs throughout the middle atmosphere are simulated by a non-hydrostatic compressible nonlinear...
We perform a three-dimensional simulation of a breaking internal gravity wave in a stratified, compressible, and sheared fluid to investigate the vorticity dynamics accompanying the transition from laminar to ...
In the last two Magnetotelluric Data Interpretation Workshops (MT-DIW) the participants were asked to model the Kayabe magnetotelluric dataset, a dense (100 m) grid of thirteen lines, with thirteen stations in...
It is well known that equatorial electrojet (EEJ) currents can significantly affect the geomagnetic variations. However, in a recent study (Padilha et al., 1997) it was observed that magnetotelluric (MT) sound...
The interpretation of actual geophysical field data still has a problem for obtaining a unique solution. In order to investigate the groundwater potentials in Saqqara archaeological area, vertical electrical s...
There exists a number of models that account for the deep structure of the Sayan-Baikal province on the basis of different geophysical data. The models based on magnetotelluric soundings differ from those obta...
Initially, two 2D models are presented in order to emphasize the possible placement of the Trans-European Suture in the rooted zone of the Eastern Carpathians’ Flysch Nappes System. Then, a conclusive review o...
The use of Mohr circles into magnetotelluric (MT) intepretation was introduced by Lilley (Lilley, 1976). By plotting Zxx-rotated versus Zxy-rotated (real and imaginary parts) important information on the conducti...
A reconnaissance MT survey was conducted in the southern portion of the Sao Francisco Sedimentary Basin, Brazil, for mapping the subsurface structure. The objective was to provide a regional model and in helpi...
Wide-band (0.002?20,000 Hz) magnetotelluric measurements (MT) observations have been conducted along three traverses in the central Tohoku district of the northeastern Japan arc at 86 observation sites since 1...
For models having moderate departures from the basic distortion model (from the so called “principal superim-position” model, that is where local three-dimensional and regional two-dimensional structures are s...
Variations of energetic electrons released from the Jovian magnetosphere are investigated in detail by using data from three spacecraft, Pioneer 10, 11, and Ulysses. Analyses with the three spacecraft data con...
A new radiation pressure model of the relay satellite of SELENE has been developed. The shape of the satellite was assumed to be a combination of a regular octagonal pillar and a column. Radiation forces actin...
This study is intended to reveal the oscillation and propagation characteristics of ULF waves observed near the dayside magnetopause. A comparative study of such ULF wave phenomena is made by using the data ob...
Geomagnetic Pc5–6 (1–4 mHz) pulsations during three magnetic storms have been analyzed using ground observations at an array of 5 Indian stations ranging from 0.8° to 25° dip latitudes and two pairs of low-lat...
The paper describes the study of solar flare effects (sfe) on horizontal (H), eastward (Y) and vertical (Z) components of the geomagnetic field at the Indo-USSR chain of magnetic observatories extending from the ...
The complex image method (CIM) is an efficient tool to calculate the electromagnetic field at the earth’s surface produced by 3D ionospheric current systems when the earth has a layered conductivity structure....
Geomagnetic field observations are planned and started in the Ocean Hemisphere Network Project. A new magnetometer system suitable for on-land long-term observations in remote places in the Pacific area are de...
A linked stress release model is proposed for the analysis of spatial interaction of earthquake occurrences through stress transfer within a large area of the Earth’s crust. As an example, the model is used fo...
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