EGU23-10168
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10168
EGU General Assembly 2023
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The Atmospheric Waves Experiment

Pierre-Dominique Pautet1, Michael John Taylor1, Yucheng Zhao1, Jeffrey Forbes2, David Fritts3, Stephen Eckermann4, Han-Li Liu5, Jonathan Snively6, Diego Janches7, Burt Lamborn8, Harri Latvakovski8, and Erik Syrstad8
Pierre-Dominique Pautet et al.
  • 1Utah State University, CASS, Logan, Utah, USA
  • 2University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • 3GATS, Boulder, USA
  • 4Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
  • 5NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • 6Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
  • 7NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
  • 8Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, Utah, USA

The Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) is a new NASA mission aimed at investigating the effects of tropospheric weather on space weather. An Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper (AMTM) airglow imager will be deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) in December 2023. This proven instrument will map the nighttime mesospheric temperature at the altitude of the hydroxyl (OH) layer (~87 km) during two years, providing 2D gravity wave (GW) fields over a 600 km field-of-view, every second.

Four state-of-the-art models will also help achieving the three science objectives:

  • Quantify the seasonal and regional variabilities and influences of GWs near the mesopause,
  • Identify the dominant dynamical processes controlling GWs observed near the mesopause,
  • Estimate the wider role of GWs in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere (ITM).

This presentation will give an overview of the AWE mission and describe the future data levels using synthetic images.

How to cite: Pautet, P.-D., Taylor, M. J., Zhao, Y., Forbes, J., Fritts, D., Eckermann, S., Liu, H.-L., Snively, J., Janches, D., Lamborn, B., Latvakovski, H., and Syrstad, E.: The Atmospheric Waves Experiment, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-10168, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10168, 2023.