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Title: A Statistical Study of the Day‐To‐Day Variability of Diurnal and Semidiurnal Tides in the Ionospheric Dynamo Region From MIGHTI/ICON Observations
Abstract The statistics of day‐to‐day tidal variability within 35‐day running mean windows is obtained from Michelson Interferometer for Global High‐Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI)/Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) observations in the 90–107 km height region for the year 2020. Temperature standard deviations for 18 diurnal and semidiurnal tidal components, and for four quasi‐stationary planetary waves are presented, as function of latitude, altitude, and day‐of‐year. Our results show that the day‐to‐day variability (DTDV) can be as large as 70% of the monthly mean amplitudes, thus providing a significant source of variability for the ionospheric E‐region dynamo and hence for the F‐region plasma. We further validate our results with COSMIC‐2 ionospheric observations and present an approach to extend the MIGHTI/ICON results to all latitudes using Hough Mode Extension fitting, to produce global tidal fields and their statistical DTDV that are suitable as lower boundary conditions for nudging and ensemble modeling of TIE‐GCM. In the future, this will likely help to establish a data‐driven perspective of space weather variability caused by the tidal weather of the lower atmosphere.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1753214 2149695
PAR ID:
10527628
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
AGU
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Volume:
129
Issue:
7
ISSN:
2169-9380
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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