Patrick Joseph Espy
Background and activities
Patrick Espy is Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. After receiving his PhD from Utah State University in 1986, he worked in the US, Sweden and the UK before joining NTNU in 2007. His research focuses on the solar, auroral and anthropogenic forcing of middle atmospheric chemistry and dynamics. In addition to ground-based measurements, he is a member of several international rocket and satellite teams studying these phenomena.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2021) Validation of SSUSI-derived auroral electron densities: Comparisons to EISCAT data. Annales Geophysicae. vol. 39 (5).
- (2021) Electrojet Estimates From Mesospheric Magnetic Field Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Space Physics. vol. 126 (5).
- (2021) Atmospheric tomography using the Nordic Meteor Radar Cluster and Chilean Observation Network de Meteor Radars: Network details and 3D-Var retrieval. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. vol. 14 (10).
- (2021) Benchmarking microbarom radiation and propagation model against infrasound recordings: a vespagram-based approach. Annales Geophysicae. vol. 39 (3).
- (2021) Climatological Westward‐Propagating Semidiurnal Tides and Their Composite Response to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in SuperDARN and SD‐WACCM‐X. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres. vol. 126 (3).
- (2020) Modelled effects of temperature gradients and waves on the hydroxyl rotational distribution in ground-based airglow measurements. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). vol. 20.
- (2020) Migrating tide climatologies measured by a high-latitude array of SuperDARN HF radars. Annales Geophysicae. vol. 38 (6).
- (2019) Mesospheric nitric oxide model from SCIAMACHY data. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). vol. 19.
- (2019) Airglow Derived Measurements of Q-Branch Transition Probabilities for Several Hydroxyl Meinel Bands. Atmosphere. vol. 10 (10).
- (2019) SuperDARN observations of semidiurnal tidal variability in the MLT and the response to sudden stratospheric warming events. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres. vol. 124.
- (2018) Observation of Quasiperiodic Structures in the Hydroxyl Airglow on Scales Below 100 m. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres. vol. 123 (19).
- (2018) Spatial and Temporal Structure of the Tertiary Ozone Maximum in the Polar Winter Mesosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Space Physics. vol. 123 (8).
- (2017) Toward an improved representation of middle atmospheric dynamics thanks to the ARISE project. Surveys in geophysics. vol. 39 (2).
- (2017) Optimizing hydroxyl airglow retrievals from long-slit astronomical spectroscopic observations. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. vol. 10 (8).
- (2017) The SPARC water vapour assessment II: Comparison of annual, semi-annual and quasi-biennial variations in stratospheric and lower mesospheric water vapour observed from satellites. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. vol. 10 (3).
- (2017) Comparison of mesospheric winds from a high-altitude meteorological analysis system and meteor radar observations during the boreal winters of 2009-2010 and 2012-2013. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. vol. 154.
- (2017) Modelling the descent of nitric oxide during the elevated stratopause event of January 2013. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. vol. 155.
- (2017) Planetary wave-like oscillations in the ionosphere retrieved with a longitudinal chain of ionosondes at high northern latitudes. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.
- (2016) The impact of energetic electron precipitation on mesospheric hydroxyl during a year of solar minimum. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Space Physics. vol. 121 (6).
- (2015) The seasonal cycle of gravity wave momentum flux and forcing in the high latitude northern hemisphere mesopause region. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. vol. 127.