First Simultaneous Lidar Observations of Thermosphere‐Ionosphere Fe and Na (TIFe and TINa) Layers at McMurdo (77.84°S, 166.67°E), Antarctica With Concurrent Measurements of Aurora Activity, Enhanced Ionization Layers, and Converging Electric Field

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Chu, Xinzhao, Nishimura, Yukitoshi, Xu, Zhonghua, Yu, Zhibin, Plane, John M. C., Gardner, Chester S., Ogawa, Yasunobu
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Research Letters; Broad Peak; Antarc*; Antarctica; E. Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685115/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090181

We report the first simultaneous, common‐volume lidar observations of thermosphere‐ionosphere Fe (TIFe) and Na (TINa) layers in Antarctica. We also report the observational discovery of nearly one‐to‐one correspondence between TIFe and aurora activity, enhanced ionization layers, and converging elec...