Publications resulting from the Spread F Experiment
(SpreadFEx)
Abdu,
M. A., E. A. Kherani, I. S. Batista, E. R. de Paula, and D. C. Fritts,
2008: An evaluation of the
ESF/bubble
irregularity growth conditions
under gravity wave influences based on observational data from the
SpreadFEx
campaign, Ann. Geophys., xx,
SpreadFEx
special issue, in revision. ******** Paper.pdf *********
Fechine, J., C. M. Wrasse, H.
Takahashi, A. F. Medeiros, P.P.Batista, B.R.Clemesha, L.M. Lima, D.
Fritts, B. Laughman,
M. J.
Taylor, P. D. Pautet, M. G. Mlynczak, and J. M. Russell, 2008: Mesospheric bore event
during SpreadFEx
campaign,
Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, in revision. ******** Paper.pdf *********
Fritts, D. C.,
M. A. Abdu, B. R. Batista,
I. S. Batista, P. P. Batista, R. Buriti, B.
R. Clemesha, T.
Dautermann, E.
de Paula,
B. J. Fechine, B. Fejer, D.
Gobbi,
J. Haase, F. Kamalabadi, B. Laughman, P. P.
Lima, H.-L. Liu, A. Medeiros,
D. Pautet, D. M. Riggin,
F. Sao Sabbas, J. H. A. Sobral,
P. Stamus, H. Takahashi, M. J. Taylor, S. L.
Vadas, and
C. Wrasse, 2008a: The
Spread F Experiment (SpreadFEx): Program overview and
first results, Earth
Planets Space,
in press. ******** Paper.pdf *********
Fritts, D. C., M. A. Abdu, B. R.
Batista, I. S. Batista, P. P. Batista, R. Buriti, B. R. Clemesha, T.
Dautermann, E. de Paula,
B. J. Fechine, B. Fejer,
D. Gobbi, J. Haase, F. Kamalabadi, E. A. Kherani, B. Laughman, P. P.
Lima, H.-L. Liu,
A.
Medeiros, D. Pautet, F.
São Sabbas, J. H. A. Sobral, P. Stamus, H. Takahashi, M. J.
Taylor, S. L. Vadas, F. Vargas,
and C. Wrasse, 2008c: Overview
and summary of the
Spread F Experiment (SpreadFEx), Ann.
Geophys., in press.
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Fritts, D. C., S. L Vadas, D. M.
Riggin,
M. A. Abdu, I. S. Batista, H.
Takahashi, A. Medeiros, F. Kamalabadi, H.-L. Liu,
B. J. Fejer, and M. J. Taylor, 2008b: Gravity
wave and tidal influences on equatorial spread F based on observations
during the
Spread F Experiment (SpreadFEx), Ann. Geophys., 26,
SpreadFEx
special issue, 3235-3252.
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Fritts, D. C., and S. L. Vadas, 2008: Gravity wave penetration into the
thermosphere: Sensitivity to solar cycle
variations and mean winds, Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, in press. ****** Paper.pdf
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Haase, J., T. Dautermann, M. Taylor, N. Chapagain, E. Calais, and D.
Pautet, 2008: Propagation of
plasma bubbles
observed in Brazil from GPS and
airglow data, Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, submitted.
******** Paper.pdf *********
Kamalabadi, F., et al., 2008: Electron
densities in the lower thermosphere from GUVI 1356 tomograqphic
inversions
in support of SpreadFEx, Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, in revision. ******** Paper.pdf *********
Kherani, E. A., M. A. Abdu, E. R. de Paula, D. C. Fritts, J. H. A.
Sobral, and F. C. de Meneses Jr., 2008: The
impact
of gravity waves rising from
convection in
the lower atmosphere on the generation and nonlinear evolution of
equatorial plasma bubbles,
Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, in revision. ******** Paper.pdf ********
Laughman, B., D. C. Fritts, and J. Werne, 2008: Numerical simulation of bore
generation and morphology in thermal
and Doppler ducts, Ann. Geophys.,
SpreadFEx special issue, in press. ******** Paper.pdf *********
Pautet, P.-D., M. J. Taylor, N. P. Chapagain, H. Takahashi, A. F.
Medreiros, F. T. Sao Sabbas, and D. C. Fritts, 2008:
Simultaneous observations of
equatorial F-region plasma depletions over Brazil during the Spread F
Experiment
(SpreadFEx) , Ann. Geophys.,
SpreadFEx special issue, in revision. ******** Paper.pdf *********
Rodrigues, F., D. L. Hysell, and E. R. de Paula, 2008: Coherent backscatter radar imaging in
Brazil: Large-scale
waves
in the bottomside F region at the
onset of equatorial spread F, Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, 26, 3355-3364.
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Sao Sabbas, F., V.
T.
Rampinelli, J. Santiago, P.
Stamus, S. L. Vadas, D. C. Fritts, M. J.
Taylor, P. D. Pautet,
G. D. Neto, and O. Pinot, 2008: Characteristics of convective sources
of gravity waves and sprites present in satellite
IR images during the SpreadFEx
2005 campaign, Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, in revision.
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Takahashi,
H., M. J. Taylor, P.-D. Pautet, A. F. Medeiros, D. Gobbi, C. M. Wrasse,
J. Fechine, M. A. Abdu,
I. S. Batista, E. Paula, J.H.A. Sobral, D. Arruda,
S. Vadas, F. S. Sabbas, and D. Fritts: Simultaneous
observation of
ionospheric plasma bubbles and mesospheric gravity waves during the
SpreadFEx Campaign,
Ann.
Geophys., SpreadFEx special issue, in revision, 2008. ******** Paper.pdf ********
Taylor,
M. J., P. D. Pautet, A. F. Medeiros, R. Buriti, J. Fechine, D. C.
Fritts, S. Vadas, H. Takahashi,
and F. Sao Sabbas: Characterizing mesospheric gravity
waves near the magnetic equator, Brazil during
the SpreadFEx
campaign, Ann.
Geophys., SpreadFEx special issue, in press, 2008. ****** Paper.pdf
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Vadas, S. L., and D. C. Fritts, 2008: Reconstruction of the gravity wave
field from convective plumes via ray
tracing, Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, in press. ******** Paper.pdf
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Vadas, S. L., M. J. Taylor, P.-D. Pautet, P. Stamus, D. C. Fritts, F.
São Sabbas, and V. T. Rampinelli, 2008: Convection:
The likely source of the
medium-scale gravity waves observed in the OH
airglow layer near
Brasilia, Brazil,
Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, in press. ******** Paper.pdf
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Vadas, S. L., D. C. Fritts, P.-D. Pautet, M. J. Taylor, H.-L. Liu, P.
Batista, H. Takahashi, F. Sao Sabbas, P. Stamus,
A. F. Medeiros, R. Buriti, and J.
Fechine, 2008: Amplitudes,
scales, and variability of gravity waves in the
thermosphere from
convective plumes over
Brazil, Ann. Geophys.,
to be submitted.
Vargas, F., D. Gobbi, and H. Takahashi, 2008: Gravity
wave amplitudes and momentum fluxes inferred from OH
airglow
intensities and meteor radar
winds during SpreadFEx, Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, in revision.
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Wrasse, H. Takahashi, A. F. Medeiros, and J. V. Bageston, 2008: Mesospheric gravity
wave observations during
the SpreadFEx campaign:
Evidence of tropospheric sources, Ann. Geophys., SpreadFEx
special issue, in revision.
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