Project information
Project aim
It is usually assumed that Earth's atmosphere above 100-km altitude contains no weather systems smaller than about 100 kilometers across, and that there is little vertical mixing. Ample observational evidence shows that both these assumptions are untrue. Most has gone unnoticed. However, such small-scale local mixing may play a key role in coupling the upper atmosphere to Earth's weather and climate. Here we propose to install a new remote sensing spectrometer at Mawson or Casey stations, to observe small-scale upper-atmospheric wind and weather systems, and in particular to monitor their response during auroral and magnetic storms.
Related publications
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First Observations of Simultaneous Interhemispheric Conjugate High-Latitude Thermospheric Winds. Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, 2010
(Ref: 14888)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
We report the first observations of simultaneous high?]latitude interhemispheric F region … neutral wind fields by combining the 630 nm optical measurements from two scanning … Doppler imagers (SDIs) and three Fabry?]Perot interferometers (FPIs) for a period … exceeding 5 h.
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Evolution of Antarctic ozone in September–December predicted by CCMVal-2 model simulations for the 21st century. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013
(Ref: 15080)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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First observations of simultaneous inter-hemispheric conjugate high-latitude thermospheric winds. XXV International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 28 June-7 July, 2011, 2011
(Ref: 14896)
Authors:Category 3: Verbal presentation
We report the first observations of simultaneous high-latitude inter-hemispheric F-region neutral wind fields by combining the 630 nm optical measurements from two scanning Doppler imagers and three Fabry-Perot interferometers for a period exceeding 5 hours on 3 October 2008.
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Numerical modelling of ion-neutral coupling in Earth's thermosphere. 7th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, 24-27 September 2007, 2007
(Ref: 14893)
Authors:Category 3: Verbal presentation
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The Current State of Australian Magnetospheric and Ionospheric Science (Invited). 7th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, Australia, 24-27 September 2007, 2007
(Ref: 14892)
Authors:Category 3: Verbal presentation