“…Due to kinetic energy conservation and to the exponential density decrease in the atmosphere, these waves are amplified and generate significant perturbations in the thermosphere/ionosphere system [Peltier and Hines, 1976]. Electron density perturbations due to these gravity waves were observed in GPS data [Artru et al, 2005;Rolland et al, 2010;Galvan et al, , 2012Occhipinti et al, 2013], ionospheric doppler sounders [Liu et al, 2006[Liu et al, , 2011, and ionospheric correction of altimetric satellites [Occhipinti et al, 2006]. Recently, the effect of these gravity waves on the nightside airglow was modeled [Hickey et al, 2010] and observed [Makela et al, 2011], adding a new way to detect tsunami propagation in the thermosphere.…”