TY - JOUR
T1 - Impacts of acoustic and gravity waves on the ionosphere
AU - Zawdie, Kate
AU - Belehaki, Anna
AU - Burleigh, Meghan
AU - Chou, Min Yang
AU - Dhadly, Manbharat S.
AU - Greer, Katelynn
AU - Halford, Alexa J.
AU - Hickey, Dustin
AU - Inchin, Pavel
AU - Kaeppler, Stephen R.
AU - Klenzing, Jeff
AU - Narayanan, Viswanathan Lakshmi
AU - Sassi, Fabrizio
AU - Sivakandan, Mani
AU - Smith, Jonathon M.
AU - Zabotin, Nikolay
AU - Zettergren, Matthew D.
AU - Zhang, Shun Rong
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge support from the International Space Science Institute as part of the “Resolving the Generation Mechanisms and Electrodynamical Effects of Medium Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs)” working group. KZ, MB, MD, DH, and FS acknowledge funding from the Office of Naval Research. AB acknowledges financial support provided by the AFRL grant award FA9550-19-1-7019 and by the PITHIA-NRF Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement 101007599 of the European Commission.
Funding Information:
JK and AH are supported through the Space Precipitation Impacts working group at Goddard Space Flight Center. VLN is supported by the NERC, United Kingdom grant NE/V01837X/1.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Zawdie, Belehaki, Burleigh, Chou, Dhadly, Greer, Halford, Hickey, Inchin, Kaeppler, Klenzing, Narayanan, Sassi, Sivakandan, Smith, Zabotin, Zettergren and Zhang.
PY - 2022/11/15
Y1 - 2022/11/15
N2 - The impact of regional-scale neutral atmospheric waves has been demonstrated to have profound effects on the ionosphere, but the circumstances under which they generate ionospheric disturbances and seed plasma instabilities are not well understood. Neutral atmospheric waves vary from infrasonic waves of <20 Hz to gravity waves with periods on the order of 10 min, for simplicity, hereafter they are combined under the common term Acoustic and Gravity Waves (AGWs). There are other longer period waves like planetary waves from the lower and middle atmosphere, whose effects are important globally, but they are not considered here. The most ubiquitous and frequently observed impact of AGWs on the ionosphere are Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs), but AGWs also affect the global ionosphere/thermosphere circulation and can trigger ionospheric instabilities (e.g., Perkins, Equatorial Spread F). The purpose of this white paper is to outline additional studies and observations that are required in the coming decade to improve our understanding of the impact of AGWs on the ionosphere.
AB - The impact of regional-scale neutral atmospheric waves has been demonstrated to have profound effects on the ionosphere, but the circumstances under which they generate ionospheric disturbances and seed plasma instabilities are not well understood. Neutral atmospheric waves vary from infrasonic waves of <20 Hz to gravity waves with periods on the order of 10 min, for simplicity, hereafter they are combined under the common term Acoustic and Gravity Waves (AGWs). There are other longer period waves like planetary waves from the lower and middle atmosphere, whose effects are important globally, but they are not considered here. The most ubiquitous and frequently observed impact of AGWs on the ionosphere are Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs), but AGWs also affect the global ionosphere/thermosphere circulation and can trigger ionospheric instabilities (e.g., Perkins, Equatorial Spread F). The purpose of this white paper is to outline additional studies and observations that are required in the coming decade to improve our understanding of the impact of AGWs on the ionosphere.
KW - ionosphere
KW - plasma irregularities
KW - space physics
KW - thermosphere
KW - waves
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143176849&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fspas.2022.1064152
DO - 10.3389/fspas.2022.1064152
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85143176849
VL - 9
JO - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
JF - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
SN - 2296-987X
M1 - 1064152
ER -