The mesosphere ranges from 31 to 53 miles (50 ... AWE started observing in November 2023, and the Helene gravity-wave images are among the first AWE images that NASA has released publicly.

In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Physics, a team of scientists from China investigate impacts of mesoscale gravity ...

26, 2024, AWE observed atmospheric gravity waves generated by Hurricane Helene ... of infrared light produced by airglow in Earth’s mesosphere. The small black circles on the continent mark ...

Then they used a decomposition method to extract gravity-wave momentum fluxes that transport energy from atmospheric circulation. "Detailed data on gravity waves are challenging to obtain from ...