Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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International Session (Oral)

Symbol P (Space and Planetary Sciences) » P-EM Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, Space Electromagnetism & Space Environment

[P-EM03] Mesosphere-Thermosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Earth's Atmosphere

Sun. May 22, 2016 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM A01 (APA HOTEL&RESORT TOKYO BAY MAKUHARI)

Convener:*Huixin Liu(Earth and Planetary Science Division, Kyushu University SERC, Kyushu University), Akinori Saito(Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University), Loren Chang(Institute of Space Science, National Central University), Atsuki Shinbori(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University), Chair:Atsuki Shinbori(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University)

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

[PEM03-03] Behaviour of the semi-diurnal tidal modes in the MLT using the SuperDARN meteor-radar chain

★Invited papers

*Patrick Espy1,2, Nora Stray1,2, Kåre Backer-Owe1, Magnus Waalekalv1, Robert Hibbins1,2 (1.Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2.Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway,)

Keywords:Dynamics, Tides, coupling

Atmospheric tides in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) have been shown to couple to the ionosphere, and may themselves be enhanced by the Joule heating associated with energetic particle precipitation. However, studies have shown that the efficiency of this coupling to and from the ionosphere depends on the spatial mode of the tides. While individual stations can provide accurate information on the temporal evolution of the tides, they do not allow the different spatial modes to be separated. Similarly, satellite observations can determine the spatial modes, but alias temporal changes in tidal amplitude and structure. A method has been developed to observe the spatial structure of atmospheric tides in the northern hemisphere (50o-66o N) MLT using neutral atmosphere winds derived from meteor trail drifts observed by a longitudinal chain of Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) radars. The tidal amplitudes determined at each radar station in the chain can be combined to infer the zonal wavenumber 1 and 2 structure of the tide and its temporal evolution without the spatial-temporal aliasing present in satellite observations. Details of the method applied to the meteor radar data will be presented, and the amplitudes and temporal variations of the wavenumber 1 and 2 components of the semi-diurnal tide in the MLT will be examined during stratospheric warming and particle precipitation events.