Seminar Abstract:
Since Jan 25, 2018, the NASA Global‐scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has flown on SES‐14, a communications satellite in geostationary orbit at 47.5°W longitude. The only instrument onboard is a far ultraviolet (FUV) imager that observes the Earth’s airglow at ~134–162 nm using two identical channels. The GOLD observations include two-dimensional images of the daytime thermosphere and nighttime ionosphere from 6:10 to 00:25 universal time each day, limb scans and stellar occultations. The GOLD data has been employed to study the thermosphere and ionosphere responses to solar forcing, geomagnetic forcing and the lower atmospheric forcing, as well as being assimilated to improve the capability of a general circulation model. In this presentation, I will mainly introduce the GOLD related work that done by me, which provides new insights of thermosphere and ionosphere dynamics.
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