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2016

Validating Local Responses in OVATION Prime-2013 and OVATION-SM with DMSP SSUSI

Mitchell, Elizabeth; Schaefer, Robert; Paxton, Larry;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Climatological aspect of the equatorial ionospheric dynamics seen by TIMED/GUVI

Kil, Hyosub; Paxton, Larry;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Nightside storm-time Birkeland currents: quasi-steady state, onsets, and dual R1/2 sense pairs

Anderson, BJ; Korth, H; Paxton, LJ; Olson, C; Waters, CL; Barnes, RJ; Gjerloev, JW;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Thermospheric wind and temperature fields observed using two ground based all-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometers in Antarctica

Conde, Mark; Bristow, William; Hampton, Donald; Kosch, Michael; Ishii, Mamoru; Paxton, Larry; Davies, Theo;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

TIME after TIMED-A perspective on Thermosphere-Ionosphere Mesosphere science and future observational needs after the TIMED mission epoch

Mlynczak, Martin; , Russell; Hunt, Linda; Christensen, Andrew; Paxton, Larry; Woods, Thomas; Niciejewski, Richard; Yee, Jeng-Hwa;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Structure and Variability in the Ionosphere using DMSP/SSUSI and TIMED/GUVI Data

Bruntz, Robert; Paxton, Larry; Kil, Hyosub; Schaefer, Robert; Zhang, Yongliang; Miller, Ethan;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

DYNAMIC: A Decadal Survey and NASA Roadmap Mission

Paxton, Larry; Oberheide, Jens;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Atomic Oxygen in The Mesosphere And Lower Thermosphere

Yee, Jeng-Hwa; , Russell; Mlynczak, Martin; Christensen, Andrew; Paxton, Larry; Zhang, Yongliang; Skinner, Wilbert; Woods, Thomas;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Observation and Modeling of the South Atlantic Anomaly in Low Earth Orbit Using Photometric Instrument Data

Selby, Christina; Paxton, LJ; Schaefer, RK; Ogorzalek, B; Romeo, G; Wolven, B; Hsieh, SY;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Nightside storm-time Birkeland currents: quasi-steady state, onsets, and dual R1/2 sense pairs

Korth, Haje; Anderson, Brian; Paxton, Larry; Olson, Cameron; Waters, Colin; Barnes, Robin; Gjerloev, Jesper;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Ionospheric data assimilation and forecasting during storms

Chartier, Alex; Matsuo, Tomoko; Anderson, Jeffrey; Collins, Nancy; Hoar, Timothy; Lu, Gang; Mitchell, Cathryn; Coster, Anthea; Paxton, Larry; Bust, Gary;

Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics      Published on:

YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Scintillation and irregularities from the nightside part of a Sun-aligned polar cap arc

van der Meeren, Christer; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Lorentzen, Dag; Paxton, Larry; Clausen, Lasse;

Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics      Published on:

YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Solar flare impact on FUV based thermospheric O/N2 estimation

Zhang, Y; Paxton, LJ; Kil, H;

Published by: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics      Published on:

YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Reply to comment by Kil et al. on “The night when the auroral and equatorial ionospheres converged”

Martinis, Carlos; Baumgardner, Jeffrey; Mendillo, Michael; Wroten, Joei; Coster, Anthea; Paxton, Larry;

Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics      Published on:

YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Equatorial broad plasma depletions associated with the evening prereversal enhancement and plasma bubbles during the 17 March 2015 storm

Kil, Hyosub; Lee, Woo; Paxton, Larry; Hairston, Marc; Jee, Geonhwa;

Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics      Published on:

YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Auroral precipitation and descent of thermospheric NO

Kühl, Sven; Espy, Patrick; Hibbins, Robert; Paxton, Larry; Funke, Bernd;

Published by: 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly      Published on:

YEAR: 2016     DOI:

Satellite FUV remote sensing and its impact to ionospheric modeling

Zhang, Yongliang; Paxton, Larry; Bilitza, Dieter;

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YEAR: 2016     DOI:

NASA Timed Guvi and Dmsp Ssusi Observations of the St. Patricks Day Storm of

Paxton, Larry; Zhang, Yongliang; Kil, Hyosub; Mitchell, Elizabeth; Schaefer, Robert;

Published by: 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly      Published on:

YEAR: 2016     DOI:

2015

The August 2011 URSI World Day campaign: Initial results

During a 10-day URSI World Day observational campaign beginning on August 1, 2011, an isolated, major geomagnetic storm occurred. On August 5,\ Kp\ reached values of 8-and\ Dst\ dropped to -113\ nT. The occurrence of this isolated storm in the middle of a 10-day URSI World Day campaign provides and unprecedented opportunity to observe the coupling of solar wind energy into the magnetosphere and to evaluate the varied effects that occur in the coupled magnetosphere\textendashionosphere\textendashthermosphere system. Dramatic changes in the ionosphere are seen at every one of the active radar stations, extending from Greenland down to equatorial Peru in the American sector and at middle latitudes in Ukraine. Data from TIMED and THEMIS are shown to support initial interpretations of the observations, where we focus on processes in the middle latitude afternoon sector during main phase, and the formation of a dense equatorial ionosphere during storm recovery. The combined measurements strongly suggest that the changes in ionospheric conditions observed after the main storm phase can be attributed in large part to changes in the stormtime thermosphere. This is through the generation of disturbance dynamo winds and also global neutral composition changes that either reduce or enhance plasma densities in a manner that depends mainly upon latitude. Unlike larger storms with possibly more sustained forcing, this storm exhibits minimal effects of persistent meridional stormtime wind drag, and little penetration of solar wind electric potentials to low latitudes. It is, therefore, an outstanding example of an impulsive event that exhibits longer-term effects through modification of the background atmosphere.

Immel, Thomas; Liu, Guiping; England, Scott; Goncharenko, Larisa; Erickson, Philip; Lyashenko, Mykhaylo; Milla, Marco; Chau, Jorge; Frey, Harald; Mende, Stephen; Zhou, Qihou; Stromme, Anja; Paxton, Larry;

Published by: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics      Published on: 11/2015

YEAR: 2015     DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2015.09.005

Aeronomy; Ionosphere; Radar; thermosphere

Impacts of CME-induced geomagnetic storms on the midlatitude mesosphere and lower thermosphere observed by a sodium lidar and TIMED/GUVI

In this paper, we report our findings on the correlation between the neutral temperature (around the mesopause) and thermospheric column density O/N2\ ratio, along with their response to geomagnetic storms above midlatitude of North America. A temperature/wind Doppler Na lidar, operating at Fort Collins, CO (41\textdegreeN, 105\textdegreeW), and later at Logan, UT (42\textdegreeN and 112\textdegreeW), observed significant temperature increases (temperature anomaly) above 95 km (as much as 55 K at 105 km altitude) during four coronal mass ejection-induced geomagnetic storms (April 2002, November 2004, May 2005, and October 2012). Coincident Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics/Global Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager observations indicate significant depletion in the thermospheric O/N2\ ratio at the lidar locations. These observations suggest that the local mesopause warming seen by the lidar is due to transport of the high-latitude joule and particle heated neutrals at the\ E\ and\ F\ layers to the midlatitude region.

Yuan, T.; Zhang, Y.; Cai, X.; She, C.-Y.; Paxton, L.;

Published by: Geophysical Research Letters      Published on: 09/2015

YEAR: 2015     DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064860

Explaining solar cycle effects on composition as it relates to the winter anomaly

The solar cycle variation of\ F2\ region winter anomaly is related to solar cycle changes in the latitudinal winter-to-summer difference of O/N2. Here we use the National Center for Atmospheric Research\textendashGlobal Mean Model to develop a concept of why the latitudinal winter-to-summer difference of O/N2\ varies with solar cycle. The main driver for these seasonal changes in composition is vertical advection, which is expressed most simply in pressure coordinates. Meridional winds do not change over the solar cycle, so the vertical winds should also not change. The other component of vertical advection is the vertical gradient of composition. Is there any reason that this should change? At solar maximum vertical temperature gradients between 100 and 200 km altitude are strong, whereas they are weak at solar minimum. To maintain the same pressure, the weak vertical temperature gradients at solar minimum must be balanced by weak density gradients and the strong temperature gradients at solar maximum must be balanced by strong density gradients to obtain the same pressure profile. Changes in the vertical density gradients are species dependent: heavy species change more and light species change less than the average density change. Hence, vertical winds act on stronger O/N2\ gradients at solar maximum than they do at solar minimum, and a stronger winter-to-summer difference of O/N2\ occurs at solar maximum compared with solar minimum.

Burns, A.; Solomon, S.; Wang, W.; Qian, L.; Zhang, Y.; Paxton, L.; Yue, X.; Thayer, J.; Liu, H.;

Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics      Published on: 07/2015

YEAR: 2015     DOI: 10.1002/2015JA021220

composition; solar cycle; upper atmosphere

Remote sensing of Earth's limb by TIMED/GUVI: Retrieval of thermospheric composition and temperature

The Global Ultraviolet Imager (GUVI) onboard the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite senses far ultraviolet emissions from O and N2 in the thermosphere. Transformation of far ultraviolet radiances measured on the Earth limb into O, N2, and O2 number densities and temperature quantifies these responses and demonstrates the value of simultaneous altitude and geographic information. Composition and temperature variations are available from 2002 to 2007. This paper documents the extraction of these data products from the limb emission rates. We present the characteristics of the GUVI limb observations, retrievals of thermospheric neutral composition and temperature from the forward model, and the dramatic changes of the thermosphere with the solar cycle and geomagnetic activity. We examine the solar extreme ultraviolet (EUV) irradiance magnitude and trends through comparison with simultaneous Solar Extreme EUV (SEE) measurements on TIMED and find the EUV irradiance inferred from GUVI averaged (2002\textendash2007) 30\% lower magnitude than SEE version 11 and varied less with solar activity. The smaller GUVI variability is not consistent with the view that lower solar EUV radiation during the past solar minimum is the cause of historically low thermospheric mass densities. Thermospheric O and N2 densities are lower than the NRLMSISE-00 model, but O2 is consistent. We list some lessons learned from the GUVI program along with several unresolved issues.

Meier, R.; Picone, J.; Drob, D.; Bishop, J.; Emmert, J.; Lean, J.; Stephan, A.; Strickland, D.; Christensen, A.; Paxton, L.; Morrison, D.; Kil, H.; Wolven, B.; Woods, Thomas; Crowley, G.; Gibson, S.;

Published by: Earth and Space Science      Published on: 01/2015

YEAR: 2015     DOI: 10.1002/2014EA000035

airglow and aurora; remote sensing; thermosphere: composition and chemistry; thermosphere: energy deposition

Global Satellite Based Remote Sensing of the Ionosphere

Zhang, Yongliang; Paxton, Larry;

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SSULI/SSUSI UV tomographic images of large-scale plasma structuring

Hei, Matthew; Budzien, Scott; Dymond, Kenneth; Paxton, Larry; Schaefer, Robert; Groves, Keith;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

UV Observations of Hemispheric Asymmetry

Schaefer, Robert; Paxton, Larry; Wolven, Brian; Zhang, Yongliang; Romeo, Giuseppe;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

Investigating gravity wave-ionosphere interactions using the Transfer Function Model and an ionosphere model

Bruntz, Robert; Paxton, Larry; Miller, Ethan; Bust, Gary; Mayr, Hans;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

Auroral dynamics and space weather

Zhang, Yongliang; Paxton, Larry;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

Solar wind driving of ionosphere-thermosphere responses during three storms on St. Patrick's Day.

Verkhoglyadova, Olga; Tsurutani, Bruce; Mannucci, Anthony; Komjathy, Attila; Mlynczak, Martin; Hunt, Linda; Paxton, Larry;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

Hydrogen in the Upper Atmosphere II Posters

Paxton, Larry; Waldrop, Lara; Mierkiewicz, Edwin; Mlynczak, Martin;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

Towards a National Space Weather Predictive Capability

Fox, Nicola; Ryschkewitsch, Michael; Merkin, Viacheslav; Stephens, Grant; Gjerloev, Jesper; Barnes, Robin; Anderson, Brian; Paxton, Larry; Ukhorskiy, Aleksandr; Kelly, Michael; , others;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

SSUSI-Lite: a far-ultraviolet hyper-spectral imager for space weather remote sensing

SSUSI-Lite is a far-ultraviolet (115-180nm) hyperspectral imager for monitoring space weather. The SSUSI and GUVI sensors, its predecessors, have demonstrated their value as space weather monitors. SSUSI-Lite is a refresh of the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager (SSUSI) design that has flown on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft F16 through F19. The refresh updates the 25-year-old design and insures that the next generation of SSUSI/GUVI sensors can be accommodated on any number of potential platforms. SSUSI-Lite maintains the same optical layout as SSUSI, includes updates to key functional elements, and reduces the sensor volume, mass, and power requirements. SSUSI-Lite contains an improved scanner design that results in precise mirror pointing and allows for variable scan profiles. The detector electronics have been redesigned to employ all digital pulse processing. The largest decrease in volume, mass, and power has been obtained by consolidating all control and power electronics into one data processing unit.

Ogorzalek, Bernard; Osterman, Steven; Carlsson, Uno; Grey, Matthew; Hicks, John; Hourani, Ramsey; Kerem, Samuel; Marcotte, Kathryn; Parker, Charles; Paxton, Larry;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI: 10.1117/12.2191701

Structures in Polar Rain Auroras

Zhang, Yongliang; Paxton, Larry; Kil, Hyosub;

Published by: Auroral Dynamics and Space Weather      Published on:

YEAR: 2015     DOI:

GPS phase scintillation at high latitudes during two geomagnetic storms

Prikryl, Paul; Ghoddousi-Fard, Reza; Ruohoniemi, John; Thomas, Evan; Zhang, Y; Paxton, LJ;

Published by: Auroral dynamics and space weather      Published on:

YEAR: 2015     DOI:

Variations in the thermospheirc compositions

Zhang, Yongliang; Paxton, Larry;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

The 2015 Parker Lecture

Sibeck, David; Paxton, Larry;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

Exploring Geospace: Novel Instruments and New Opportunities II Posters

Paxton, Larry; Ridley, Aaron; Rowland, Douglas; Vierinen, Juha;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

Remote Sensing of the Magnetospheric Processes from Auroral Observations I Posters

Zhang, Yongliang; Paxton, Larry; Wing, Simon;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

Morphology of the postsunset vortex in the equatorial ionospheric plasma drift

Lee, Woo; Kil, Hyosub; Kwak, Young-Sil; Paxton, Larry;

Published by: Geophysical Research Letters      Published on:

YEAR: 2015     DOI:

GUVI and SSUSI Observations of the St. Patrick's Day Storms

Paxton, Larry; Schaefer, Robert; Zhang, Yongliang; Bust, Gary; Kil, Hyosub;

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YEAR: 2015     DOI:

The night when the auroral and equatorial ionospheres converged

Martinis, C; Baumgardner, J; Mendillo, M; Wroten, J; Coster, A; Paxton, L;

Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics      Published on:

YEAR: 2015     DOI:

2014

Ionospheric TEC, thermospheric cooling and $\Sigma$ [O/N2] compositional changes during the 6--17 March 2012 magnetic storm interval (CAWSES II)

A series of four geomagnetic storms (the minimum SYM-H~-148\ nT) occurred during the March 6\textendash17, 2012 in the ascending phase of the solar cycle 24. This interval was selected by CAWSES II for its campaign. The GPS total electron content (TEC) database and JPL\textquoterights Global Ionospheric Maps (GIM) were used to study vertical TEC (VTEC) for different local times and latitude ranges. The largest response to geomagnetic activity is shown in increases of the low-latitude dayside VTEC. Several GPS sites feature post-afternoon VTEC \textquotedblleftbite-outs\textquotedblright. During Sudden Impulse (SI+) event on March 8th a peak daytime VTEC restores to about quiet-time values. It is shown that the TIMED/SABER zonal flux of nitric oxide (NO) infrared cooling radiation correlates well with auroral heating. A factor of ~5 cooling increase is noted in some storms. The cooling radiation intensifies in the auroral zone and spreads towards the equator. Effects of the storm appear at lower latitudes ~18.6\ h later. The column density ratio Σ[O/N2] is analyzed based on TIMED/GUVI measurements. Both increases (at low latitudes) and decreases (from auroral to middle latitudes) in the ratio occurs during the geomagnetic storms. We suggest that the column density ratio could be enhanced at low to middle latitudes on the dayside partially due to the superfountain effect (atomic oxygen uplift due to ion-neutral drag). It is suggested that decreases in the Σ[O/N2] ratio at high to middle-latitudes may be caused by high thermospheric temperatures. During SI+s, there is an increase in Σ[O/N2] ratio at auroral latitudes.

Verkhoglyadova, O.P.; Tsurutani, B.T.; Mannucci, A.J.; Mlynczak, M.G.; Hunt, L.A.; Paxton, L.J.;

Published by: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics      Published on: 08/2014

YEAR: 2014     DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2013.11.009

Geomagnetic storms; Ionosphere; thermosphere

Solar filament impact on 21 January 2005: Geospace consequences

On 21 January 2005, a moderate magnetic storm produced a number of anomalous features, some seen more typically during superstorms. The aim of this study is to establish the differences in the space environment from what we expect (and normally observe) for a storm of this intensity, which make it behave in some ways like a superstorm. The storm was driven by one of the fastest interplanetary coronal mass ejections in solar cycle 23, containing a piece of the dense erupting solar filament material. The momentum of the massive solar filament caused it to push its way through the flux rope as the interplanetary coronal mass ejection decelerated moving toward 1 AU creating the appearance of an eroded flux rope (see companion paper by Manchester et al. (2014)) and, in this case, limiting the intensity of the resulting geomagnetic storm. On impact, the solar filament further disrupted the partial ring current shielding in existence at the time, creating a brief superfountain in the equatorial ionosphere\textemdashan unusual occurrence for a moderate storm. Within 1 h after impact, a cold dense plasma sheet (CDPS) formed out of the filament material. As the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) rotated from obliquely to more purely northward, the magnetotail transformed from an open to a closed configuration and the CDPS evolved from warmer to cooler temperatures. Plasma sheet densities reached tens per cubic centimeter along the flanks\textemdashhigh enough to inflate the magnetotail in the simulation under northward IMF conditions despite the cool temperatures. Observational evidence for this stretching was provided by a corresponding expansion and intensification of both the auroral oval and ring current precipitation zones linked to magnetotail stretching by field line curvature scattering. Strong Joule heating in the cusps, a by-product of the CDPS formation process, contributed to an equatorward neutral wind surge that reached low latitudes within 1\textendash2 h and intensified the equatorial ionization anomaly. Understanding the geospace consequences of extremes in density and pressure is important because some of the largest and most damaging space weather events ever observed contained similar intervals of dense solar material.

Kozyra, J.; Liemohn, M.; Cattell, C.; De Zeeuw, D.; Escoubet, C.; Evans, D.; Fang, X.; Fok, M.-C.; Frey, H.; Gonzalez, W.; Hairston, M.; Heelis, R.; Lu, G.; Manchester, W.; Mende, S.; Paxton, L.; Rastaetter, L.; Ridley, A.; Sandanger, M.; Soraas, F.; Sotirelis, T.; Thomsen, M.; Tsurutani, B.; Verkhoglyadova, O.;

Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics      Published on: 07/2014

YEAR: 2014     DOI: 10.1002/2013JA019748

cold dense plasma sheet; Equatorial anomaly; magnetotail; precipitation; prompt penetration electric field; solar filament

Storm-time behaviors of O/N2 and NO variations

Algorithms have been developed to extract net nitric oxide (NO) radiances in the wavelength range of 172\textendash182\ nm from the dayside TIMED/GUVI spectrograph data and convert them to NO column density (100\textendash150\ km). The thermospheric O/N2 column density ratios (referenced from an altitude ~135\ km with a N2column density of 1017\ cm-2) are also obtained from the spectrograph data. The spatial resolution of the NO and O/N2 products along the GUVI orbit is 240\ km. The coincident O/N2 ratio and NO column density maps during a few geomagnetic storms reveal two major features: (1) Storm-time O/N2 depletion and NO enhancement extend from high to mid and low latitudes. They are anti-correlated on a global scale, (2) the NO enhancement covers a wider longitude and latitude region than O/N2 depletion on a local scale. The similarity between O/N2 depletion and NO enhancement on global scale is due to storm-time equatorward meridional wind that brings both O/N2 depleted and NO enhanced air from high to low latitudes. The altitude dependence of the storm-time meridional wind, different peaks altitudes of the local O/N2 and NO variations, and long life time of NO (one day or longer) may explain the different behaviors of O/N2 and NO on a local scale.

Zhang, Y.; Paxton, L.J.; Morrison, D.; Marsh, D.; Kil, H.;

Published by: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics      Published on: 07/2014

YEAR: 2014     DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2014.04.003

geomagnetic storm; Thermospheric nitric oxide; Thermospheric O/N2 ratio

OVATION Prime-2013: Extension of auroral precipitation model to higher disturbance levels

OVATION Prime (OP) is an auroral precipitation model parameterized by solar wind driving. Distinguishing features of the model include an optimized solar wind-magnetosphere coupling function (dΦMP/dt) which predicts auroral power significantly better than\ Kp\ or other traditional parameters, the separation of aurora into categories (diffuse aurora, monoenergetic, broadband, and ion), the inclusion of seasonal variations, and separate parameter fits for each magnetic latitude (MLAT) \texttimes magnetic local time (MLT) bin, thus permitting each type of aurora and each location to have differing responses to season and solar wind input\textemdashas indeed they do. We here introduce OVATION Prime-2013, an upgrade to the 2010 version currently widely available. The most notable advantage of OP-2013 is that it uses UV images from the GUVI instrument on the satellite TIMED for high disturbance levels (dΦMP/dt \> 1.2 MWb/s which roughly corresponds toKp = 5+ or 6-). The range of validity is approximately 0 \< dΦMP/dt <= 3.0 MWb/s (Kp\ about 8+). Other upgrades include a reduced susceptibility to salt-and-pepper noise, and smoother interpolation across the postmidnight data gap. The model is tested against an independent data set of hemispheric auroral power from Polar UVI. Over the common range of validity of OP-2010 and OP-2013, the two models predict auroral power essentially identically, primarily because hemispheric power calculations were done in a way to minimize the impact of OP-2010s noise. To quantitatively demonstrate the improvement at high disturbance levels would require multiple very large substorms, which are rare, and insufficiently present in the limited data set of Polar UVI hemispheric power values. Nonetheless, although OP-2010 breaks down in a variety of ways above\ Kp = 5+ or 6-, OP-2013 continues to show the auroral oval advancing equatorward, at least to 55\textdegree MLAT or a bit less, and OP-2013 does not develop spurious large noise patches. We will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of other precipitation models more generally, as no one model fits best all possible uses.

Newell, P.; Liou, K.; Zhang, Y.; Sotirelis, T.; Paxton, L.; Mitchell, E.;

Published by: Space Weather      Published on: 06/2014

YEAR: 2014     DOI: 10.1002/swe.v12.610.1002/2014SW001056

AURORA; precipitation; forecasting

On the solar cycle variation of the winter anomaly

Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate, Ionosonde, and Global Ultraviolet Imager data have been used to investigate the solar cycle changes in the winter anomaly (the winter anomaly is defined as the enhancement of the F2 peak electron density in the winter hemisphere over that in the summer hemisphere) in the last solar cycle. There is no winter anomaly in solar minimum, and an enhancement of about 50\% in winter over summer ones on the same day of the year at solar maximum. This solar cycle variation in the winter anomaly is primarily due to greater winter to summer differences of [O]/[N2] in solar maximum than in solar minimum, with a secondary contribution from the effects of temperature on the recombination coefficient between O+ and the molecular neutral gas. The greater winter increases in electron density in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere appear to be related to the greater annual variation of [O]/[N2] in the north than in the south.

Burns, A.; Wang, W.; Qian, L.; Solomon, S.; Zhang, Y.; Paxton, L.; Yue, X.;

Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics      Published on: 06/2014

YEAR: 2014     DOI: 10.1002/jgra.v119.610.1002/2013JA019552

Anomaly; Cycle; Ionosphere

The thermospheric O/N2 and NO products from TIMED/GUVI

The Global Ultraviolet Imager (GUVI) on TIMED satellite detects FUV (~ 110-185nm) emissions from the thermosphere and ionosphere. The major emission features include HI (Lyman α

Zhang, Yongliang; Paxton, Larry; Kil, Hyosub;

Published by: 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly      Published on:

YEAR: 2014     DOI:

Developing a Multi-Element Geospace Investigation to Understand the Impact of Hemispheric Assymetry

Paxton, Larry; Newell, Patrick; Stromme, Anja; Ridley, Aaron; Kozyra, Janet; Mitchell, Elizabeth;

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YEAR: 2014     DOI:

Investigation of the Tidal Signatures in the Thermosphere Using the TIMED/GUVI Data

Kil, Hyosub; Paxton, Larry; Zhang, Yongliang; Kwak, Young-Sil; Lee, Woo;

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YEAR: 2014     DOI:

Composition and the Winter Anomaly

Burns, Alan; Wang, Wenbin; Qian, Liying; Solomon, Stanley; Zhang, Yongliang; Paxton, Larry; Thayer, Jeffrey;

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YEAR: 2014     DOI:

Solar and Heliospheric Physics General Contributions II Posters

Richardson, Ian; Millan, Robyn; Paxton, Larry; Zhao, Lingling;

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YEAR: 2014     DOI:



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