My current graduate research at the Center of Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS) is focused on Ionosphere F region climatology and thermosphere-ionosphere coupling. The radio occultation data from six FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC satellites and Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements Model (GAIM) developed at Utah State University provide excellent opportunity for understanding various Ionospheric phenomena at mid- and low-latitudes. Ability to estimate different physical drivers (thermospheric neutral winds, composition and ExB drifts) through the comprehensive modeling of the global ionosphere under the different conditions enables to address many current challenges of the Ionospheric physics.
Articles
Long-term changes in the nightly behaviour of the oxygen red 630.0 nm line nightglow intensity and trends in the thermospheric meridional wind velocity (with G. G. Didebulidze, N. B. Gudadze, and A. D. Pataraya), International Journal of Remote Sensing (2011)
Long-term changes in the nightly behaviour of the monthly/seasonal mean of the oxygen red 630.0...
Double atmospheric gravity wave frequency oscillations of sporadic E formed in a horizontal shear flow (with G. G. Didebulidze), Physics Letters A (2010)
The new theory of sporadic E density oscillation with double atmospheric gravity wave (AGW) frequency...
Ionosphere F2 layer stratification caused by shear excited atmospheric vortical perturbation (with G. G. Didebulidze, and N. B. Gudadze), Advances in Space Research (2009)
We found that the height distribution of electron density of the mid-latitude ionosphere F2 region...
Multilayered structures in the ionosphere F2 region and impulse-like increase of the nightglow red 630 nm line intensity as a result of influence of shear excited atmospheric vortical perturbations (with G. G. Didebulidze, N. B. Gudadze, and M. Todua), Journal of Geophysical Research (2009)
It is shown that the formation of multilayered structures in the midlatitude ionosphere F 2...
Different long-term trends of the oxygen red 630.0 nm line nightglow intensity as the result of lowering the ionosphere F2 layer (with N. B. Gudadze, G. G. Didebulidze, G. Sh. Javakhishvili, M. A. Marsagishvili, and M. Todua), Annales Geophysicae (2008)
Long-term observations of total nightglow intensity of the atomic oxygen red 630.0 nm line at...
Presentations
Analysis of the Physical Mechanisms behind the Weddell Sea Anomaly using a Physics-based Data assimilation Model (with Ludger Scherliess), USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (2013)