We just published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) on the first lidar observations of regular occurrence of mid-latitude thermosphere-ionosphere Na (TINa) layers over Boulder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2021GL093729<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the first time that metal layers are regularly seen at these extreme altitudes in the atmosphere. Just 10 years ago, Chu’s team discovered such high-altitude metal layers over McMurdo, Antarctica, but there they occur more irregularly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the future, lidars with high detection sensitivity enabled by large-aperture telescope, high-efficiency receiver architecture, and powerful transmitter likely lead to the detection of tenuous TIMt layers globally. These layers provide a natural laboratory for studying the ion-neutral coupling and act as tracers for profiling the neutral wind and temperature in the E to lower F regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We just published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) on the first lidar observations of regular occurrence of mid-latitude thermosphere-ionosphere Na (TINa) layers over Boulder. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2021GL093729 This is the first time that metal layers are regularly seen at these extreme altitudes in the atmosphere. Just 10 years ago, Chu’s team discovered such high-altitude metal… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 19:50:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}