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It is an Editorial note. Here is the first paragraph:Welcome to the Research Topic ?Coupling Processes in Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres?in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. This research topic has been motivated by therecent developments in modeling and observation of interaction processes in the atmospheres ofEarth and other Solar System planets. The atmosphere-ionosphere system on Earth and also onother studied planets is controlled by lower atmospheric effects, e.g., by upward propagatingwaves of various spatiotemporal scales from below (e.g., Forbes et al., 2006; Chau et al., 2012;Yiğit and Medvedev, 2015; Vadas and Becker, 2018), and by space weather effects from above(e.g., Yiğit et al., 2016). The nature of these effects is highly variable, which makes studyingvertical coupling in the atmosphere-ionosphere a challenging endeavor. An increasing numberof numerical studies demonstrate a significant amount of thermospheric and ionospheric effectsof small-scale waves of the lower atmospheric origin (e.g., Heale et al., 2014; Miyoshi et al., 2014;Hickey et al., 2015; Yiğit and Medvedev, 2017; Yu et al., 2017; Gavrilov et al., 2020). Waves areroutinely observed in the terrestrial atmosphere, for example, by ground-based lidars (e.g., Yanget al., 2008; Baumgarten et al., 2015), radars (e.g., Pramitha et al., 2019), airglow imagers (e.g.,Pautet et al., 2019; Vargas et al., 2021), space-borne instruments (Park et al., 2014), and balloonflights (Hertzog et al., 2008). Satellite observations on Mars demonstrate that the Martianthermosphere is continuously populated by waves of the lower atmospheric origin (e.g., Jeschet al., 2019; Siddle et al., 2019; Yiğit et al., 2021b). The influence of these waves is increasinglyappreciated in planetary atmospheres as well (e.g., Medvedev and Yiğit, 2019, and the referencestherein).

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