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Airglow-imager based observation of possible influences of subtropical mesospheric gravity waves on F-region ionosphere over Jammu & Kashmir, India
As a joint research collaboration between the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), and the University of Kashmir (KU), NARL installed an all-sky airglow CCD imager (with centre wavelengths of 630 nm, 557.7 nm [2 nm band widths] and 840 nm [150 nm wide band with blocking notch at 866 nm t...
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author | Ramkumar, T. K. Malik, Manzoor Ahmad Ganaie, Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Aashiq Hussain |
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description | As a joint research collaboration between the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), and the University of Kashmir (KU), NARL installed an all-sky airglow CCD imager (with centre wavelengths of 630 nm, 557.7 nm [2 nm band widths] and 840 nm [150 nm wide band with blocking notch at 866 nm to avoid the contamination of molecular oxygen emissions]) in the University campus in Srinagar (75°E, 34°N, geographic), Jammu and Kashmir, India (western Himalayan region). To understand the upper atmospheric dynamics and ionospheric electrodynamics and their associated physical coupling mechanisms, the imager observes airglow emissions of OH molecules (~ 85 km height; 840 nm) and atomic oxygen occurring at the heights of ~ 97 km (557.7 nm) and ~ 250 km (630 nm). Airglow observations in Kashmir commenced in the night of August 11, 2017 and the present work reports on the characteristics of first-time observation of Medium Scale Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs with horizontal wavelengths of ~ 100–300 km) over Kashmir region during 20:30—22:30 IST (Indian standard time) on August 15, 2017 (India independence day). Initially, the phase front of MSTIDs was aligned along the north-west and south-east direction and moved at ~ 57 m/s towards the south-west direction and finally the westward direction by aligning along the meridian before they disappeared. Along with SAMI-3 ionospheric model simulations, simultaneous multiwavelength airglow observations indicate that secondary gravity waves generated due to dissipation of upward propagating mesospheric gravity waves in the heights of ~ 85–95 km would have contributed to the generation of MSTIDs in the F region ionospheric plasma through electrodynamical coupling between the E and F region (Perkins instability) ionosphere. |
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spelling | pubmed-81199642021-05-17 Airglow-imager based observation of possible influences of subtropical mesospheric gravity waves on F-region ionosphere over Jammu & Kashmir, India Ramkumar, T. K. Malik, Manzoor Ahmad Ganaie, Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Aashiq Hussain Sci Rep Article As a joint research collaboration between the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), and the University of Kashmir (KU), NARL installed an all-sky airglow CCD imager (with centre wavelengths of 630 nm, 557.7 nm [2 nm band widths] and 840 nm [150 nm wide band with blocking notch at 866 nm to avoid the contamination of molecular oxygen emissions]) in the University campus in Srinagar (75°E, 34°N, geographic), Jammu and Kashmir, India (western Himalayan region). To understand the upper atmospheric dynamics and ionospheric electrodynamics and their associated physical coupling mechanisms, the imager observes airglow emissions of OH molecules (~ 85 km height; 840 nm) and atomic oxygen occurring at the heights of ~ 97 km (557.7 nm) and ~ 250 km (630 nm). Airglow observations in Kashmir commenced in the night of August 11, 2017 and the present work reports on the characteristics of first-time observation of Medium Scale Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs with horizontal wavelengths of ~ 100–300 km) over Kashmir region during 20:30—22:30 IST (Indian standard time) on August 15, 2017 (India independence day). Initially, the phase front of MSTIDs was aligned along the north-west and south-east direction and moved at ~ 57 m/s towards the south-west direction and finally the westward direction by aligning along the meridian before they disappeared. Along with SAMI-3 ionospheric model simulations, simultaneous multiwavelength airglow observations indicate that secondary gravity waves generated due to dissipation of upward propagating mesospheric gravity waves in the heights of ~ 85–95 km would have contributed to the generation of MSTIDs in the F region ionospheric plasma through electrodynamical coupling between the E and F region (Perkins instability) ionosphere. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8119964/ /pubmed/33986403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89694-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Ramkumar, T. K. Malik, Manzoor Ahmad Ganaie, Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Aashiq Hussain Airglow-imager based observation of possible influences of subtropical mesospheric gravity waves on F-region ionosphere over Jammu & Kashmir, India |
title | Airglow-imager based observation of possible influences of subtropical mesospheric gravity waves on F-region ionosphere over Jammu & Kashmir, India |
title_full | Airglow-imager based observation of possible influences of subtropical mesospheric gravity waves on F-region ionosphere over Jammu & Kashmir, India |
title_fullStr | Airglow-imager based observation of possible influences of subtropical mesospheric gravity waves on F-region ionosphere over Jammu & Kashmir, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Airglow-imager based observation of possible influences of subtropical mesospheric gravity waves on F-region ionosphere over Jammu & Kashmir, India |
title_short | Airglow-imager based observation of possible influences of subtropical mesospheric gravity waves on F-region ionosphere over Jammu & Kashmir, India |
title_sort | airglow-imager based observation of possible influences of subtropical mesospheric gravity waves on f-region ionosphere over jammu & kashmir, india |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8119964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33986403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89694-3 |
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