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Airglow Measurements from the SABER/TIMED Satellite.

Mesospheric hydroxyl, molecular oxygen, and ozone airglow emission data from the SABER instrument on the NASA TIMED satellite are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of the altitude airglow volume emission rate (VER) profiles with the goal of establishing the cause or causes of oc...

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Published in:Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Vol. 95; pp. 153 - 161
Main Authors: Simons, Brian J., Baker, Doran J., Ware, Gene A., Mlynczak, Martin G., Russell III, James M.
Format: Article
Published: Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters 2018
Subjects:
Airglow
Mesospheric thermodynamics
Ozone
Emissions (Air pollution)
Mesosphere
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Summary:Mesospheric hydroxyl, molecular oxygen, and ozone airglow emission data from the SABER instrument on the NASA TIMED satellite are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of the altitude airglow volume emission rate (VER) profiles with the goal of establishing the cause or causes of occasional observed multi-peak and bifurcation anomalies in the tangent point limb emissions and in the derived VER profiles. These anomalies are important because they may lead to discrepancies in the analysis of the VER profiles. Knowledge about the causes and characteristics of the mesospheric airglow are important to understanding of the Earth's dynamic environment including climate change.