Dr. Wickwar is a member of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences and professor of physics, Utah State University. He has taught courses in optics and aeronomy, and served as thesis advisor for a number of graduate students. He has been the principal investigator on a number of grants involving studies of the middle or upper atmosphere with lidar, photometers, Fabry-Perot interferometry , and incoherent-scatter (IS) radar. From 1973 to 1988, he was employed at SRI International, where he was co-principal investigator of the Sondrestrom incoherent-scatter radar and principal investigator on numerous IS radar studies using data from the Arecibo, Chatanika/Sondrestrom, EISCAT, Millstone Hill, and St. Santin radars. These studies included the joint American-French plasma line experiments at high latitudes and investigations of photoelectrons and secondary electrons. He also served as a correlative investigator on the UARS satellite team and as a guest investigator on the Atmospheric Explorer and Dynamic Explorer satellite teams. He has developed both hardware and software for data acquisition and analysis and has been instrumental in establishing NCAR’s IS data base, which developed into the CEDAR data base. During a 2-year leave-of-absence from SRI, Dr. Wickwar served as the NSF Program Director for Aeronomy. He has collaborated extensively with French aeronomers at both the University of Grenoble and France’s Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique.
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Early Observations of the Middle Atmosphere Above USU With the World’s Most Sensitive Lidar (with Lance W. Petersen, Marcus J. Bingham, and Joshua P. Herron), National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) (2011)
Extensive measurements have been made of the upper atmosphere by satellites and the lower atmosphere...
Temperature trends and episodic changes of the middle atmosphere over Logan Utah with consideration to model specification (with Troy A. Wynn), Annual Report of the Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium. (2010)
A summary of the linear trends estimated from the USU Rayleigh Lidar (41.74o N, 118oW)...
Rayleigh-Lidar Determinations of the Vertical Wavelength of Mesospheric Gravity Wave (with Joe R. Slansky and Durga N. Kafle), SPS Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2009 (2009)
Atmospheric structures have been observed in the Rayleigh lidar data acquired between 1993 and 2004...
Rayleigh-Lidar Observations of Mesospheric Instabilities (with Gabriel C. Taylor and Durga N. Kafle), SPS Meeting (2009)
From 1993 to 2004 the Utah State University Rayleigh lidar, known as the USU...
The effects of model misspecification on linear regression coefficients as applicable to solar and linear terms (with Troy A. Wynn), Annual Report of the Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium (2009)
Determining atmospheric solar response from data is typically done by fitting a linear model to...