Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
8-2020
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph. D.
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Degree Program
Physics, PhD
Committee Chair
Du-Caines, Jian
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Oberheide, Jens
Committee Member
Oberheide, Jens
Committee Member
Zhu, Xuwen
Committee Member
Sumanasekara, Gamini
Committee Member
Yu, Ming
Author's Keywords
Atmospheric tide; short-term variability; tidal weather; migrating diurnal tide; DW1
Abstract
Our ability to understand and predict space weather has become vital due to its significant societal impacts on communication, transportation, and national defense. One of the most exciting discoveries in the last decade has been the realization that tropospheric weather can strongly influence space weather. It is now recognized that the atmospheric waves (gravity waves, atmospheric tides, and planetary waves) play a key role in coupling the lower and upper atmosphere. The focus of this dissertation is to study atmospheric tides. While the climatology of tides has been extensively studied, little is known about the tidal weather (tidal variability
Recommended Citation
Vitharana, Lokupatabendige Ashan Shivantha, "A comprehensive study of the short-term variability of the migrating diurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere." (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3516.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/3516
