• Formation of an additional density peak in the bottom side of the sodium layer associated with the passage of multiple mesospheric frontal systems 

      Narayanan, Viswanathan Lakshmi; Nozawa, Satonori; Oyama, Shin-Ichiro; Mann, Ingrid; Shiokawa, Kazuo; Otsuka, Yuichi; Saito, Norihito; Wada, Satoshi; Kawahara, Takuya D.; Takahashi, Toru (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-18)
      We present a detailed investigation of the formation of an additional sodium density peak at altitudes of 79–85 km below the main peak of the sodium layer based on sodium lidar and airglow imager measurements made at Ramfjordmoen near Tromsø, Norway, on the night of 19 December 2014. The airglow imager observations of OH emissions revealed four passing frontal systems that resembled mesospheric ...
    • Planetary radar science case for EISCAT 3D 

      Tveito, Torbjørn; Vierinen, Juha; Gustavsson, Björn Johan; Narayanan, Viswanathan Lakshmi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-12)
      Ground-based inverse synthetic aperture radar is a tool that can provide insights into the early history and formative processes of planetary bodies in the inner solar system. This information is gathered by measuring the scattering matrix of the target body, providing composite information about the physical structure and chemical makeup of its surface and subsurface down to the penetration ...
    • A Possible Explanation of Interhemispheric Asymmetry of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles in Airglow Images 

      Hickey, Dustin A.; Sau, Sukanta; Narayanan, Viswanathan Lakshmi; Gurubaran, S. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-28)
      Equatorial plasma bubbles resulting from equatorial spread urn:x-wiley:jgra:media:jgra55597:jgra55597-math-0002 are well known to be aligned along the Earth's geomagnetic fields. During the geomagnetic storm on 17 March 2015, all‐sky airglow observations from Tirunelveli (8.7°N, 77.8°E, 1.7°N dip latitude) showed an apparent interhemispheric asymmetry in the tilt of the equatorial plasma bubbles. ...