Recent investigation on the coupling between the ionosphere and upper atmosphere

作     者：WAN WeiXing XU JiYao Wan W X;Xu J Y

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences State Key Laboratory of Space Weather Center for Space Science and Applied Research Chinese Academy of Sciences 

出 版 物：《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学（地球科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第57卷第9期

页      面：1995-2012页

核心收录：

学科分类：070802[理学-空间物理学] 07[理学] 070602[理学-大气物理学与大气环境] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

基　　金：supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZZD-EW-01-2) National Important Basic Research Project (Grant No. 2011CB811405) National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41131066, 41321003) 

主　　题：upper atmosphere ionosphere vertical coupling 

摘      要：Scientific attention has recently been focused on the coupling of the earth s upper atmosphere and ionosphere. In the present work, we review the advances in this field, emphasizing the studies and contributions of Chinese scholars. This work first introduces new developments in the observation instruments of the upper atmosphere. Two kinds of instruments are involved: optical instruments(lidars, FP interferometers and all-sky airglow imagers) and radio instruments(MST radars and all-sky meteor radars). Based on the data from these instruments and satellites, the researches on climatology and wave disturbances in the upper atmosphere are then introduced. The studies on both the sporadic sodium layer and sporadic E-layer are presented as the main works concerning the coupling of the upper atmosphere and the low ionosphere. We then review the investigations on the ionospheric longitudinal structure and the causative atmospheric non-migrating tide as the main progress of the coupling between the atmosphere and the ionospheric F2-region. Regarding the ionosphere-thermosphere coupling, we introduce studies on the equatorial thermospheric anomaly, as well as the influence of the thermospheric winds and gravity waves to the ionospheric F2-region. Chinese scholars have made much advancement on the coupling of the ionosphere and upper atmosphere, including the observation instruments, data precession, and modeling, as well as the mechanism analysis.