Vertical Coupling by Solar Semidiurnal Tides in the Thermosphere From ICON/MIGHTI Measurements

Wind measurements from the Michelson Interferometer for Global High-resolution Ther-23mospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) instrument on the Ionospheric CONnections (ICON) mis-24sion provide new insights into the semidiurnal tidal spectrum in the thermosphere, cov-25ering latitudes 9◦S-39◦N and altitudes 100-...

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Published in:Journal of geophysical research. Space physics 2022-05, Vol.127 (5), p.n/a
Main Authors: Forbes, Jeffrey M, Oberheide, Jens, Zhang, Xiaoli, Cullens, Chihoko, Englert, Christoph R, Harding, Brian J, Harlander, John M, Marr, Kenneth D, Makela, Jonathan J, Immel, Thomas J
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Language:English
Subjects:
Altitude
Climate models
coupling
Dissipation
Diurnal variations
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
HME
ICON/MIGHTI
Ion drag
Ionosphere
Latitude
Mean winds
Mesosphere
Michelson interferometers
semidiurnal
Semidiurnal tides
Thermosphere
Tidal models
Tidal winds
tide
Tides
Wind measurement
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Summary:Wind measurements from the Michelson Interferometer for Global High-resolution Ther-23mospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) instrument on the Ionospheric CONnections (ICON) mis-24sion provide new insights into the semidiurnal tidal spectrum in the thermosphere, cov-25ering latitudes 9◦S-39◦N and altitudes 100-280 km altitude throughout 2020. Latitude26versus day of year (DOY) variability of solar semidiurnal tides SE2, S0, SW1, SW2, SW327and SW4 at 250 km are presented for the first time, and evaluated relative to similar re-28sults at 106 km. Using daytime-only data, height versus latitude and height versus DOY29variability of SE2, S0, SW1. SW3 and SW4 amplitudes and phases are depicted for the30first time, revealing the effects of a dissipative thermosphere on the vertical evolutions31of these tidal structures. SW2 is absent from these depictions due to potential aliasing32by zonal mean winds. The above results are considered in light of the Climatological Tidal33Model of the Thermosphere (CTMT), which is based on fits to tidal winds and temper-34atures from the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED)35mission between 80 and 120 km during 2002-2008, and extrapolated to an altitude of 40036km based on modeled tidal structures propagating in a dissipative thermosphere, but with-37out in-situ sources of excitation due to tide-tide or tide-ion drag nonlinear interactions.38On the basis of comparisons with the CTMT and other characteristics revealed in the39MIGHTI tidal structures, it is concluded that in-situ sources exist for S0, SW1, SW2 and40SW3 in the thermosphere above about 200 km.
ISSN:2169-9380
2169-9402
DOI:10.1029/2022JA030288