• Multi-instrument observations of the Pajala fireball: origin, characteristics, and atmospheric implications 

      Vierinen, Juha; Aslaksen, Torstein; Chau, Jorge L.; Gritsevich, Maria; Gustavsson, Bjorn Johan; Kastinen, Daniel; Kero, Johan; Kozlovsky, Alexandre; Kværna, Tormod; Näsholm, Sven Peter; Ulich, Thomas; Vegum, Ketil; Midtskogen, Steinar; Lester, Mark (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-07)
      Meteor observations provide information about Solar System constituents and their influx onto Earth, their interaction processes in the atmosphere, as well as the neutral dynamics of the upper atmosphere. This study presents optical, radar, and infrasound measurements of a daytime fireball that occurred on 4 December 2020 at 13:30 UTC over Northeast Sweden. The fireball was recorded with two video ...
    • Multi-static spatial and angular studies of polar mesospheric summer echoes combining MAARSY and KAIRA 

      Chau, Jorge L.; McKay, Derek; Vierinen, Juha; La Hoz, Cesar Augusto Vergara; Ulich, Thomas; Lehtinen, Markku; Latteck, Ralph (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-06)
      Polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSEs) have been long associated with noctilucent clouds (NLCs). For large ice particles sizes and relatively high ice densities, PMSEs at 3m Bragg wavelengths are known to be good tracers of the atmospheric wind dynamics and to be highly correlated with NLC occurrence. Combining the Middle Atmosphere ALOMAR Radar System (MAARSY) and the Kilpisjärvi Atmospheric Imaging ...
    • Plasma-neutral gas interactions in various space environments: Assessment beyond simplified approximations as a Voyage 2050 theme 

      Yamauchi, Masatoshi; De Keyser, Johan; Parks, George; Oyama, Shin-ichiro; Wurz, Peter; Abe, Takumi; Beth, Arnaud; Daglis, Ioannis A.; Dandouras, Iannis; Dunlop, Malcolm; Henri, Pierre; Ivchenko, Nickolay; Kallio, Esa; Kucharek, Harald; Liu, Yong C.-M.; Mann, Ingrid; Marghitu, Octav; Nicolaou, Georgios; Rong, Zhaojin; Sakanoi, Takeshi; Saur, Joachim; Shimoyama, Manabu; Taguchi, Satoshi; Tian, Feng; Tsuda, Takuo; Tsurutani, Bruce; Turner, Drew; Ulich, Thomas; Yau, Andrew; Yoshikawa, Ichiro (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-26)
      In the White Paper, submitted in response to the European Space Agency (ESA) Voyage 2050 Call, we present the importance of advancing our knowledge of plasma-neutral gas interactions, and of deepening our understanding of the partially ionized environments that are ubiquitous in the upper atmospheres of planets and moons, and elsewhere in space. In future space missions, the above task ...