Na Lidar Publications

Cao, Bing and Liu, Alan Z. "Investigation of gravity waves using measurements from a sodium temperature/wind lidar operated in multi-direction mode," Atmos. Meas. Tech. 17, pp. 2123--2146, 2024. doi: 10.5194/amt-17-2123-2024

Hecht, James H., Liu, A. Z., Fritts, D. C., Walterscheid, R. L., Gelinas, L. J., and Rudy, R. J. "A ``Boreing'' Night of Observations of the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Over the Andes Lidar Observatory," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 128, pp. e2023JD038754, 2023. doi: 10.1029/2023JD038754

Dong, Wenjun, Fritts, David C., Liu, Alan Z., Lund, Thomas S., Liu, Han-Li, and Snively, Jonathan "Accelerating Atmospheric Gravity Wave Simulations Using Machine Learning: Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Mountain Wave Sources Driving Gravity Wave Breaking and Secondary Gravity Wave Generation," Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, pp. e2023GL104668, 2023. doi: 10.1029/2023GL104668

Dong, Wenjun, Fritts, David C., Liu, Alan Z., Lund, Thomas S., and Liu, Han-Li "Gravity Waves Emitted From Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities," Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, pp. e2022GL102674, 2023. doi: 10.1029/2022GL102674

Vargas, Fabio, Liu, Alan Z, Swenson, Gary R., Segura, Carlos, Vega, P., Fuentes, J., Pautet, D., Taylor, M., Zhao, Yucheng, Morton, Y., and Bourne, H. "Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Changes Associated With the 2 July 2019 Total Eclipse in South America Over the Andes Lidar Observatory, Cerro Pachon, Chile," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 127, pp. e2021JD035064, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2021JD035064

Dong, Wenjun, Fritts, David C., Liu, Alan Z., Lund, Thomas S., Zhang, Shaodong, Yan, Yanying, and Yang, Fan "Modeling studies of gravity wave dynamics in highly structured environments: Reflection, trapping, instability, momentum transport, secondary gravity waves, and induced flow responses," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 127, pp. e2021JD035894, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2021JD035894

Yang, Fan and Liu, Alan Z. "Stability Characteristics of the Mesopause Region Above the Andes," J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys. 127, pp. e2022JA030315, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2022JA030315

Cao, Bing and Liu, Alan "Statistical Characteristics of High-frequency Gravity Waves Observed by an Airglow Imager at Andes Lidar Observatory," Earth Sp. Sci. 9, pp. e2022EA002256, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2022EA002256

Philbrick, Channing P., Yang, Fan, Vargas, Fabio A., Swenson, Gary R., and Liu, Alan Z. "A Na density lidar method and measurements of turbulence to 105 km at the Andes Lidar Observatory," J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys. 219, pp. 105642, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2021.105642

Huang, Kai Ming, Liu, Hang, Liu, Alan Z., Zhang, Shao Dong, Huang, Chun Ming, Gong, Yun, and Ning, Wu Han "Investigation on spectral characteristics of gravity waves in the MLT using lidar observations at Andes," J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys. 126, pp. e2020JA028918, 2021. doi: 10.1029/2020JA028918

Hecht, James H., Fritts, D. C., Gelinas, L. J., Rudy, R. J., Walterscheid, R. L., and Liu, A. Z. "Kelvin-Helmholtz billow interactions and instabilities in the mesosphere over the Andes Lidar Observatory: 1. Observations," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 126, pp. e2020JD033414, 2021. doi: 10.1029/2020JD033414

Guo, Yafang and Liu, Alan Z. "Seasonal variation of vertical heat and energy fluxes due to dissipating gravity waves in the mesopause region over the Andes," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 126, pp. e2020JD033825, 2021. doi: 10.1029/2020JD033825

Li, Qian, Zhang, Shao Dong, Huang, Chun Ming, Huang, Kai Ming, Gong, Yun, Gan, Quan, Liu, Alan Z., Yan, Yan Ying, and Liu, Hang "Statistical Spectral Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Winds in the Mesopause Region Revealed by the Andes Lidar," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 126, pp. e2021JD035586, 2021. doi: 10.1029/2021JD035586

Cai, Xuguang, Yuan, Tao, Eccles, J. Vincent, Pedatella, N.M., Xi, Xiaoqi, Ban, Chao, and Liu, Alan Z. "A numerical investigation on the variation of sodium ion and observed thermospheric sodium layer at Cerro Pachón, Chile during equinox," J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys. 124, 2019. doi: 10.1029/2018JA025927

Mondal, S., Sarkhel, S., Agarwal, Jay, Chakrabarty, D., Sekar, R., Yuan, Tao, Cai, Xuguang, Liu, Alan Z., Nozawa, Satonori, Saito, Norihito, Kawahara, Takuya D., Mlynczak, Martin G., and Russell III, James M. "On the long lasting ``C-type'' structures in the sodium lidargram: The lifetime of Kelvin-Helmholtz billows in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere region," J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys. 124, pp. 3110--3124, 2019. doi: 10.1029/2019JA026630

Gardner, Chester S., Guo, Yafang, and Liu, Alan Z. "Parameterizing wave‐driven vertical constituent transport in the upper atmosphere," Earth Sp. Sci. 6, 2019. doi: 10.1029/2019ea000625