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PAPERBACK price:$34.75 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles The Atmospheric Sciences: Entering the Twenty-First Century Strategic Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences Other Related Titles Aspects of Weather and Space Weather in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere: The Role of Internal Atmospheric Waves (1997) National Research Council (NRC) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "References." Aspects of Weather and Space Weather in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere: The Role of Internal Atmospheric Waves. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997. Please select a format: Page 30   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. FIGURE 28 Periodic turbulent updrafts in the ionosphere over Japan may be seeded by internal waves and grow via the instability first described by Rip Perkins. Reproduced from Fukao et al. (1991) with permission of the American Geophysical Union. In short, the ionosphere is a battleground affected by the lower atmosphere from below and by the solar wind, energetic solar photons, and particles from above. The latter need an entire treatise in their own right. Here we have tried to show some effects that come up from below. As we have seen, internal waves carry much of the atmospheric energy upward from below and, in tandem with electromagnetic effects, make the plasma blanket covering the Earth highly structured, sometimes turbulent, and always interesting in its scientific richness. REFERENCES Beach, T.L. , M.C. Kelley , P.M. Kintner , and C.A. Miller . 1997 . Total electron content response to nighttime variations in mid-latitude F peak altitude , J. Geophys. Res. , in press . Djuth, F.T. , M.P. Sulzer , J.H. Elder , and V.B. Wickwar . 1997 . High-resolution studies of atmosphere-ionosphere coupling at Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico . Radio Sci., Special Section: Advanced Radar Studies of the Ionosphere and Atmosphere , in press. Fukao, S. , M.C. Kelley , T. Shirakawa , T. Takami , M. Yamamoto , T. Tsuda , and S. Kato . 1991 . Turbulent upwelling of the mid-latitude ionosphere . 1. Observational results by the MU radar , J. Geophys. Res. , 96(A3) : 3725-3746 . Page 30 Front Matter (R1-R8) Introduction (1-1) Some Observations (2-6) Some Theory Dealing with Internal Waves (7-14) New Remote Sensing Schemes (15-18) A Wave-driven Refrigerator (19-21) Relationship of Internal Waves to Space Weather (22-29) References (30-30) Further Reading (31-31)

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ASPECTS OF WEATHER AND SPACE WEATHER IN THE EARTH'S UPPER ATMOSPHERE: THE ROLE OF INTERNAL ATMOSPHERIC WAVES FIGURE 28 Periodic turbulent updrafts in the ionosphere over Japan may be seeded by internal waves and grow via the instability first described by Rip Perkins. Reproduced from Fukao et al. (1991) with permission of the American Geophysical Union. In short, the ionosphere is a battleground affected by the lower atmosphere from below and by the solar wind, energetic solar photons, and particles from above. The latter need an entire treatise in their own right. Here we have tried to show some effects that come up from below. As we have seen, internal waves carry much of the atmospheric energy upward from below and, in tandem with electromagnetic effects, make the plasma blanket covering the Earth highly structured, sometimes turbulent, and always interesting in its scientific richness. REFERENCES Beach, T.L. , M.C. Kelley , P.M. Kintner , and C.A. Miller . 1997 . Total electron content response to nighttime variations in mid-latitude F peak altitude , J. Geophys. Res. , in press . Djuth, F.T. , M.P. Sulzer , J.H. Elder , and V.B. Wickwar . 1997 . High-resolution studies of atmosphere-ionosphere coupling at Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico . Radio Sci., Special Section: Advanced Radar Studies of the Ionosphere and Atmosphere , in press. Fukao, S. , M.C. Kelley , T. Shirakawa , T. Takami , M. Yamamoto , T. Tsuda , and S. Kato . 1991 . Turbulent upwelling of the mid-latitude ionosphere . 1. Observational results by the MU radar , J. Geophys. Res. , 96(A3) : 3725-3746 .

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