Research Progress on Atmospheric Dynamics in the Aerospace Transition Zone

The aerospace transition zone refers to the region between traditional aviation and space activities, specifically the atmospheric layer from 20 kilometers to 150 kilometers above the Earth's surface. With the accelerated development of aerospace integrated space environment services, the modeling and forecasting of atmospheric dynamics in the aerospace transition zone have received increasing attention from various disciplines while significant progress has been made on the microphysical processes and mechanisms of the aerospace transition zone atmospheric disturbances. This study reviews the recent research status of the aerospace transition zone atmospheric dynamics, and briefly analyzes the research progress on the impact of solar radiation and polar particle precipitation on the aerospace transition zone atmospheric environment in the coupling chain process of the Sun/solar wind–magnetosphere–the aerospace transition zone. Then, we focus on summarizing the research progress of the coupling between Earth activities-lower atmosphere and the aerospace transition zone by four aspects of gravity waves, planetary waves, tidal waves, and typical lower atmospheric activities. Finally, it looks forward to the future development prospects of the aerospace transition zone and several key issues that need to be solved, providing a certain reference for scholars in atmospheric science and space physics.