Archived Group News

04/2020 Our paper about "A Comparative Study of ionospheric Day-to-day Variability over Wuhan based on Ionosonde Measurements and Model Simulations" has been submitted to JGR-Space Physics. Congratulations!

04/2020 Our paper about "Quiet-time Day-to-day Variability of Equatorial Vertical E×B Drift" has been published. Congratulations!

4/2020 Ms. Erin Thompson accepted the offer from Georgia Tech University and will join it as a graduate student. Congratulations, Erin!

03/2020 Our paper about "First Lidar Observations of Quasi-Biennial Oscillation-Induced Interannual Variations of Gravity Wave Potential Energy Density..." has been submitted to JGR-Atmospheres. Congratulations!

11/2019 Dr. Lu won the award for the "Pilot Program for Faculty Incentive for Global Engagement in SCIENCE". Congratulations!

11/2019 Dr. Lu's paper on QBO of polar waves was accepted by GRL. Congratulations!

11/2019 Haonan Wu passed his topic defense! Congratulations!

10/2019 Xu Zhou submitted his article about "Quiet-time Day-to-day Variability of Equatorial Vertical drift from Atmosphere Perturbations" to Geophysical Research Letters. Congratulations!

9/2019 Ms Erin Thompson joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Erin!

8/2019 Haonan Wu gave a nice talk on the overview of Atmospheric and Space Physics and space weather he has been studying at the SIRPA symposium

8/2019 Dr. Dipti Rout's paper was published in JGR-Space Physics, congratulations!

8/2019 Dr. Jintai Li has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome, Jintai!

7/2019 Our paper reporting the first-time identification of the QBO signal on Antarctic waves has been submitted to Geophysical Research Letters. Congratulations!

6/2019 Mr. Yiwen Zhu joined our group as a visiting undergraduate student. Welcome, Yiwen!

6/2019 Mr. Haonan Wu gave his first talk at the CEDAR workshop entitled "A mechanism study of large temperature enhancement and inversion layers in the E-region during geomagnetic storm". Good job, Haonan!

5/2019 Mr. Xu Zhou joined our group as a graduate student. Welcome, Xu!

4/2019 Dr. Rout has submitted his paper of Significant electric field perturbations to JGR-Space Physics. Congratulations!

3/2019 Dr. Lu was nominated for the Researcher of the Year Award by College of Science. Congratulations!

2/2019 Dr. Dipti Rout has joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

1/2019 Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) has featured Dr. Huang's paper as the cover page article! Congratulations!

12/2018 Our NASA HTIDS proposal has been selected for funding! Congratulations!

12/2018 Our AFOSR proposal has been selected for funding! Congratulations!

11/2018 Our paper on "Transition of Interhemispheric Assymmetry of EIA" has been published in JGR-Space Physics. Congratulations!

10/2018 Our NASA HGI proposal has been selected for funding! Congratulations!

10/2018 Our paper on the Double-Peak of Stationary Planetary Waves has been published in JGR-Atmospheres. Congratulations!

10/2018 Addision Blackman and Adam Lucker have joined the group. Welcome!

09/2018 Dr. He Huang has submitted her paper to JGR-Space Physics about "the Interhemispheric Asymmetry transition of Equatorial Ionization Anomaly". Congratulations!

08/2018 Haonan Wu has passed the qualifier exam with top grades! Congratulations!

08/2018 Dr. Quan Gan has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

08/2018 Our paper about Lidar observations of stratospheric gravity waves is published in JGR-Atmospheres and featured by the editor. Congratulations!

07/2018 Dr. Lu wins the NSF CAREER award. Congratulations!

06/2018 Our paper about "Latitudinal Double-Peak Structure of Stationary Planetary Wave " has been submitted to JGR-Atmosphere.

05/2018 The group starts the visit of High Altitude Observatory, NCAR in Boulder, CO.

02/2018 Dr. Lu wins the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Faculty Fellowship Award! Congratulations!

02/2018 Dr. He Huang from Chinese Academy of Science has joined the group as a postdocctoral researcher. Welcome!

01/2018 Mr. Casey Dowdle and Mr. Mikael Toye have joined the group for research. Welcome!

10/2017 Our paper about "First observations of eastward propagating planetary waves to the lower thermosphere in winter Antarctica" has been published in Geophysical Research Letter. Congratulations!

09/2017 Ms. Yu Wang has joinged our group for research. Welcome!

09/2017 Our paper "Statistical characterization of high-to-medium frequency mesoscale gravity waves by lidar-measured vertical winds and temperatures in the MLT" is published in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. Congratulations!

08/2017 Mr. Haonan Wu has joined our group as a graduate student researcher. Welcome!

08/2017 The numerical models to simulate stationary planetary waves with lower-boundary forcing and to simulate traveling planetary waves excited by instability with an initial value problem have been debugged. Model results compare well with observations. Congratulations!

06/2017 Dr. Lu convenes a Polar Workshop and gives a talk on the planetary wave observation and modeling at CEDAR workshop, Keystone, CO.

05/2017 Our paper "Lidar observations of stratospheric gravity waves from 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo (77.84°S, 166.69°E), Antarctica: 1. Vertical wavelengths, periods, and frequency and vertical wave number spectra" is published in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. Congratulations!

05/2017 Dr. Lu gives two talks about neutral dynamics of Earth's atmosphere and neutral atmosphere responses to geomagnetic storms at International Space Weather Meridian Circle Program Workshop, Qingdao, China.

03/2017 The Community Earth System Model (CESM) is being ported and now running at Palmetto. Congratulations!

02/2017 Mr. William Krier has joined our group as an undergraduate student! Welcome!

01/2017 The TIE-GCM model is being ported and now running at Palmetto. Congratulations!

12/2016 Mr. Lester Carson has joined our group as an undergraduate student! Welcome!

11/2016 The CTIPe model is being ported and now running at Palmetto. Congratulations!

09/16/2016 Dr. Lu presented a talk and a poster in the International Symposium on the Whole Atmosphere in Tokyo, Japan. (PDFs available under Documents.)

08/24/2016 Dr. Lu introduced her research on the "Introduction to Research" course. (PDF).

08/15/2016 Dr. Lu joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy