• A case study of gravity wave dissipation in the polar MLT region using sodium LIDAR and radar data 

      Takahashi, Toru; Nozawa, Satonori; Tsutsumi, Masaki; Hall, Chris; Suzuki, Shin; Tsuda, Takuo T.; Kawahara, Takuya D.; Saito, Norihito; Oyama, Shinichiro; Wada, Satoshi; Kawabata, Tetsuya; Fujiwara, Hitoshi; Brekke, Asgeir; Manson, Alan; Meek, Chris; Fujii, Ryoichi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    • A case study on generation mechanisms of a sporadic sodium layer above Tromsø (69.6° N) during a night of high auroral activity 

      Takahashi, Toru; Nozawa, Satonaori; Tsuda, Takuo T.; Ogawa, Yasunobu; Saito, Norihito; Hidemori, Takehiro; Kawahara, Takuya D.; Hall, Chris; Fujiwara, Hitoshi; Matuura, Nobuo; Brekke, Asgeir; Tsutsumi, Masaki; Wada, Satoshi; Kawabata, Tetsuya; Oyama, Shinichiro; Fujii, Ryoichi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-05)
      We have quantitatively evaluated generation mechanisms of a sporadic sodium layer (SSL) based on observational data obtained by multiple instruments at a high-latitude station: Ramfjordmoen, Tromsø, Norway (69.6° N, 19.2° E). The sodium lidar observed an SSL at 21:18 UT on 22 January 2012. The SSL was observed for 18 min, with a maximum sodium density of about 1.9 × 1010 m−3 at 93 km with a 1.1 km ...
    • 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 ...
    • Interferometric Study of Ionospheric Plasma Irregularities in Regions of Phase Scintillations and HF Backscatter 

      Spicher, Andres; LaBelle, James; Bonnell, John W.; Roglans, Roger; Moser, Chrystal; Fuselier, Stephen A.; Bounds, Scott; Clausen, Lasse; Di Mare, Francesca; Feltman, Connor A.; Jin, Yaqi; Kletzing, Craig; Miloch, Wojciech Jacek; Moen, Jøran Idar; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Sawyer, Rhyan; Takahashi, Toru; Yeoman, Tim K. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-08)
      We investigate the nature of small-scale irregularities observed in the cusp by the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics-2 (TRICE-2) in regions of enhanced phase scintillations and high-frequency coherent radar backscatter. We take advantage of the fact that the irregularities were detected by spatially separated probes, and present an interferometric analysis of both the observed electron ...
    • A statistical study of convective and dynamic instabilities in the polar upper mesosphere above Tromsø 

      Nozawa, Satonori; Saito, Norihito; Kawahara, Takuya D.; Wada, Satoshi; Tsuda, Takuo T.; Maeda, S; Takahashi, Toru; Fujiwara, Hitoshi; Narayanan, V L; Kawabata, T; Johnsen, Magnar Gullikstad (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-15)
      We have studied the convective (or static) and dynamic instabilities between 80 and 100 km above Tromsø (69.6° N, 19.2° E) using temperature and wind data of 6 min and 1 km resolutions primarily almost over a solar cycle obtained with the sodium lidar at Tromsø. First, we have calculated Brunt–Väisälä frequency (N) for 339 nights obtained from October 2010 to December 2019, and the Richardson ...
    • Suppression of ionospheric irregularity due to auroral particle impact 

      Takahashi, Toru; Spicher, Andres; Di Mare, Francesca; Rowland, Douglas E.; Pfaff, Robert F.; Collier, Michael R.; Clausen, Lasse; Moen, Jøran Idar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-16)
      The VISIONS-2 35.039 sounding rocket was launched from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, on 7 December 2018 at 11:06 UT, and traveled overhead of the cusp aurora. The payload reached an apogee of 806.6 km and provided measurements of the electric field (E) and electron density (N<sub>e</sub> ) with a high sampling rate of 6,250 Hz. The high-sampling-data make it possible to estimate the horizontal structure ...