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Mesospheric nightglow spectral survey taken by the ISO spectral spatial imager on ATLAS 1This paper reports the first comprehensive spectral survey of the mesospheric airglow between 260 and 832 nm taken by the Imaging Spectrometric Observatory on the ATLAS 1 mission. We select data taken in the spectral window between 275 and 300 nm to determine the variation with altitude of the Herzberg I bands originating from the vibrational levels v-prime = 3 to 8. These data provide the first spatially resolved spectral measurements of the system. The data are used to demonstrate that to within an uncertainty of +/- 10 percent, the vibrational distribution remains invariant with altitude. The deficit reported previously for the v-prime = 5 level is not observed although there is a suggestion of depletion in v-prime = 6. The data could be used to place tight constraints on the vibrational dependence of quenching rate coefficients, and on the abundance of atomic oxygen.
Document ID
19930047925
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Owens, J. K.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Torr, D. G.
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, United States)
Torr, M. R.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Chang, T.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Fennelly, J. A.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Richards, P. G.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Morgan, M. F.
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, United States)
Baldridge, T. W.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Fellows, C. W.
(Science and Engineering Associates, Inc. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Dougani, H.
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
March 19, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Geophysical Research Letters
Volume: 20
Issue: 6
ISSN: 0094-8276
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
93A31922
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS8-37106
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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