CEDAR: Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Irradiance Effects on the Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere System

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项目编号	1552130
	CEDAR: Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Irradiance Effects on the Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
	Phillip Anderson
主持机构	University of Texas at Dallas
项目开始年	2016
	2016-03-01
项目结束日期	2019-02-28
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Continuing grant
项目经费	65764(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) program is a broad-based, community-guided, upper atmospheric research program. It is aimed at understanding the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the ionized upper layers of the atmosphere and into outer space in terms of coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales. The processes of interest are related to perturbations that propagate upward from the lower atmosphere as well as to solar radiation and particle inputs from above. This project will contribute fundamental results towards CEDAR goals in the area of understanding the variability in the upper atmosphere caused by the changing input of solar irradiance in the extreme ultra-violet part of the spectrum. A specific goal is to determine directly, for the first time, the relationship between measured irradiance levels and observed conditions in the upper atmosphere. The results of this study will provide a unique observational benchmark for validating and constraining physics-based models of the upper atmosphere. Such models are essential for understanding and predicting critical processes in the near-Earth space environment that can severely impact technological systems such as satellite navigation, radio wave communication, and electric power grids. The project will support the education of a graduate student at University of Texas at Dallas. The main goal of this project is to quantify the response of the ionosphere relative to direct, spectrally separated measurements of solar extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation from the TIMED and SDO spacecraft. This approach constitutes an immense improvement over previous studies based on proxies. The C/NOFS and DMSP spacecraft will provide corresponding measurements of ionospheric parameters at a range of altitudes. This dataset, spanning more than a solar cycle, allows for the use of advanced statistical analysis techniques and will be used together with the SAMI-2 model to address outstanding science questions related to understanding the ionospheric response to solar EUV variability. Interesting questions to be investigated include the relative importance of and interaction between the responses in the neutral and ionized components of the upper atmosphere.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/69184
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Phillip Anderson.CEDAR: Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Irradiance Effects on the Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere System.2016.