The NCAR TIE-GCM: A Community Model of the Coupled Thermosphere/Ionosphere System

Liying Qian; Alan G. Burns; Barbara A. Emery; Benjamin Foster; Gang Lu; Astrid Maute; Arthur D. Richmond; Raymond G. Roble; Stanley C. Solomon; Wenbin Wang

doi:10.1002/9781118704417.ch7

The NCAR TIE-GCM: A Community Model of the Coupled Thermosphere/Ionosphere System

Liying Qian, Alan G. Burns, Barbara A. Emery, Benjamin Foster, Gang Lu, Astrid Maute, Arthur D. Richmond, Raymond G. Roble, Stanley C. Solomon, Wenbin Wang

National Center for Atmospheric Research

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The CHAMP satellite has revealed new observations of the upper F region ionosphere and the thermosphere. This chapter reviews these new findings at low and equatorial latitude, from the point of view of coupling between the atmosphere and the magnetic field and between different atmospheric regions. The chapter deals with the gross features in the electron density and temperature and in the neutral density and wind. These features include the equatorial anomaly, the electron temperature morning overshoot, equatorial plasma irregularities, the zonal wind jet, terminator waves, or findings of the wave-4 structure in plasma and neutrals. Large-scale thermospheric features revealed by CHAMP are described from three perspectives. They are the thermosphere response to solar forcing, to ionospheric forcing, and to lower atmosphere forcing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Modeling the Ionosphere-Thermosphere, Volume 201
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	73-83
Number of pages	11
Volume	9780875904917
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118704417
ISBN (Print)	9780875904917
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118704417.ch7
State	Published - May 19 2014

Keywords

CHAMP mission
Electron density
Electron temperature
Low-latitude ionosphere
Thermosphere

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