The Atmospheric Coupling and Dynamics Across the Mesopause (ACaDAMe) mission

D. Janches; A. W. Yu; M. A. Krainak; C. Gardner; B. Kaifler; S. Etemad; D. C. Fritts; S. D. Eckermann; R. L. Collins; E. C.M. Dawkins; R. S. Lieberman; D. R. Marsh; G. Liu; W. Jarvis

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2019.07.012

The Atmospheric Coupling and Dynamics Across the Mesopause (ACaDAMe) mission

D. Janches, A. W. Yu, M. A. Krainak, C. Gardner, B. Kaifler, S. Etemad, D. C. Fritts, S. D. Eckermann, R. L. Collins, E. C.M. Dawkins, R. S. Lieberman, D. R. Marsh, G. Liu, W. Jarvis

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The Atmospheric Coupling and Dynamics Across the Mesopause (ACaDAMe) is a mission designed to uniquely address critical questions involving multi-scale wave dynamics at key space weather (SWx) “gateway altitudes” of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) at ~70–150 km. ACaDAMe observes with a nadir-pointing resonant lidar that utilizes the fluorescence of atomic Na present in the MLT. By tuning a laser to the Na absorption wavelength (589 nm), ACaDAMe would perform very high resolution measurements of temperature and Na densities across the mesopause during both day and night. In this manner, Na is used as tracer for observing and characterizing MLT waves generated by tropospheric weather that represent the dominant terrestrial source of energy and momentum affecting space weather and transport of mesospheric species.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1915-1925
Number of pages	11
Journal	Advances in Space Research
Volume	64
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.07.012
State	Published - Nov 15 2019

Keywords

Gravity waves
Lidar
MLT dynamics
Planetary waves tides

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Aerospace Engineering
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Geophysics
Atmospheric Science
Space and Planetary Science
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Janches, D., Yu, A. W., Krainak, M. A., Gardner, C., Kaifler, B., Etemad, S., Fritts, D. C., Eckermann, S. D., Collins, R. L., Dawkins, E. C. M., Lieberman, R. S., Marsh, D. R., Liu, G., & Jarvis, W. (2019). The Atmospheric Coupling and Dynamics Across the Mesopause (ACaDAMe) mission. Advances in Space Research, 64(10), 1915-1925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.07.012

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