Steven Smith (astronomer)
Steven Smith is a senior research scientist at Boston University's Center for Space Physics. His primary research interests include imaging and the study of gravity-wave activity in the night-time mesosphere, as well as imaging and the study of the lunar sodium tail.[1]
Education
Smith received his B.Sc, M.Sc, and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Canterbury.[1]
Career
Smith works as a senior research specialist at Boston University.[1]
Professional memberships
- 1989–present: American Geophysical Union
- 2002–present: Committee on Space Research
- 1997–present: Boston University Imaging Science Group
- 1978–present: Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand
- 2014–present: DEEPWAVE Science Team
Selected publications
- A case study of a simultaneous airglow imaging and two dimensional horizontally resolved wind-field observations over northern Germany
- The Moon's Extended Sodium Tail
- Mesospheric Gravity Wave Momentum Flux Associated With a Large Thunderstorm Complex
- Large-Amplitude Mountain Waves in the Mesosphere Observed on 21 June 2014 During DEEPWAVE: 1. Wave Development, Scales, Momentum Fluxes, and Environmental Sensitivity
- Mesospheric Bore Observations Using Suomi-NPP VIIRS DNB during 2013–2017
- Observations of the Breakdown of Mountain Waves over the Andes Lidar Observatory at Cerro Pachon on July 8/9, 2012
- Characterization of a Double Mesospheric Bore Over Europe
- The Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment (DEEPWAVE): An Airborne and Ground-Based Exploration of Gravity Wave Propagation and Effects from their Sources throughout the Lower and Middle Atmosphere
- All-sky imaging of transglobal thermospheric gravity waves generated by the March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
- Upper Atmospheric Gravity Wave Details Revealed in Nightglow Satellite Imagery
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Steven Smith". BU Center for Space Physics. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
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