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Jorge L. Chau is affiliated with the University of Rostock in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences. The primary subfields of their research include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Aerospace Engineering, and Oceanography.

Their work broadly covers topics such as Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Earthquake Detection and Analysis, Astro and Planetary Science, GNSS positioning and interference, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Juha Vierinen, Ralph Latteck, J. Federico Conte, Toralf Renkwitz, and Juan Miguel Urco.

Jorge L. Chau has published in a variety of scientific venues, with the most frequent being Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, and Annales Geophysicae.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Jorge L. Chau include:

  • SOUTHTRAC-GW: An Airborne Field Campaign to Explore Gravity Wave Dynamics at the World's Strongest Hotspot (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Multistatic Specular Meteor Radar Network in Peru: System Description and Initial Results (2020, Earth and Space Science)
  • Validation of ICON-MIGHTI Thermospheric Wind Observations: 2. Green-Line Comparisons to Specular Meteor Radars (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics)
  • First Studies of Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Dynamics Using a Multistatic Specular Meteor Radar Network Over Southern Patagonia (2021, Earth and Space Science)
  • Two decades of long-term observations of polar mesospheric echoes at 69°N (2021, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics)

In addition to articles, Jorge L. Chau has contributed to book publications, including "Generation-to-Generation Communications in Space Physics," published in 2023 by Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • Unexpected connections between the stratosphere and ionosphere

    L. P. Goncharenko;J. L. Chau;H.-L. Liu;A. J. Coster

  • Penetration of the solar wind electric field into the magnetosphere/ionosphere system

    Michael C. Kelley;Jonathan J. Makela;Jorge L. Chau;Michael J. Nicolls

  • Quiet variability of equatorial E × B drifts during a sudden stratospheric warming event

    J. L. Chau;B. G. Fejer;Larisa Petrovna Goncharenko

  • Equatorial and low latitude ionospheric effects during sudden stratospheric warming events

    Jorge L. Chau;Larisa P. Goncharenko;Bela G. Fejer;Han L. Li

  • Impact of sudden stratospheric warmings on equatorial ionization anomaly

    Larisa Petrovna Goncharenko;A. J. Coster;J. L. Chau;C. E. Valladares

  • Daytime vertical E × B drift velocities inferred from ground‐based magnetometer observations at low latitudes

    David Anderson;Adela Anghel;Jorge Chau;Oscar Veliz

  • Equatorial Ionospheric Electric Fields During the November 2004 Magnetic Storm

    Bela G. Fejer;J. W. Jensen;T. Kikuchi;M. A. Abdu

  • Lunar‐dependent equatorial ionospheric electrodynamic effects during sudden stratospheric warmings

    Bela G. Fejer;M. E. Olson;J. L. Chau;C. Stolle

  • Equatorial spread-F initiation: Post-sunset vortex, thermospheric winds, gravity waves

    Erhan Kudeki;Ahmed Akgiray;Marco Milla;Jorge L. Chau

  • Penetration electric fields: Efficiency and characteristic time scale

    Chao-Song Huang;Stanislav Sazykin;Jorge L. Chau;Naomi Maruyama

  • Ionospheric Effects of Sudden Stratospheric Warming During Moderate-to-High Solar Activity: Case Study of January 2013

    Larisa Petrovna Goncharenko;J. L. Chau;P. Condor;A. Coster

  • Quiet time ionospheric variability over Arecibo during sudden stratospheric warming events

    J. L. Chau;N. A. Aponte;E. Cabassa;M. P. Sulzer

  • Modeling the global micrometeor input function in the upper atmosphere observed by high power and large aperture radars

    Diego Janches;Craig J. Heinselman;Jorge L. Chau;Amal Chandran

  • Observations of meteor-head echoes using the Jicamarca 50MHz radar in interferometer mode

    J. L. Chau;R. F. Woodman

  • Daytime vertical and zonal velocities from 150‐km echoes: Their relevance to F‐region dynamics

    Jorge L. Chau;Ronald F. Woodman

  • CEDAR Electrodynamics Thermosphere Ionosphere (ETI) Challenge for systematic assessment of ionosphere/thermosphere models: NmF2, hmF2, and vertical drift using ground-based observations

    J. S. Shim;M. Kuznetsova;L. Rastätter;M. Hesse

  • Forecasting the occurrence of ionospheric scintillation activity in the equatorial ionosphere on a day-to-day basis

    David N. Anderson;Bodo Reinisch;Cesar Valladare;Jorge Chau

  • SOUTHTRAC-GW: An airborne field campaign to explore gravity wave dynamics at the world’s strongest hotspot

    Markus Rapp;Bernd Kaifler;Andreas Dörnbrack;Sonja Gisinger

  • Enhanced lunar semidiurnal equatorial vertical plasma drifts during sudden stratospheric warmings

    B. G. Fejer;B. D. Tracy;M. E. Olson;J. L. Chau

  • Optimal aperture synthesis radar imaging

    D. L. Hysell;J. L. Chau

  • A multistatic and multifrequency novel approach for specular meteor radars to improve wind measurements in the MLT region

    G. Stober;J. L. Chau

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald F. Woodman
Ronald F. Woodman Instituto Geofísico del Perú
Erhan Kudeki
Erhan Kudeki University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas Pedatella
Nicholas Pedatella National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter Hoffmann
Peter Hoffmann University of Rostock
Michael C. Kelley
Michael C. Kelley Cornell University
David L. Hysell
David L. Hysell Cornell University
Guozhu Li
Guozhu Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cesar E. Valladares
Cesar E. Valladares The University of Texas at Dallas
Bela G. Fejer
Bela G. Fejer Utah State University
Jonathan J. Makela
Jonathan J. Makela University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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