WINDII atmospheric wave airglow imaging [electronic resource].

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1996.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 10 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Preliminary WINDII nighttime airglow wave-imaging data in the UARS rolldown attitude has been analyzed with the goal to survey gravity waves near the upper boundary of the middle atmosphere. Wave analysis is performed on O[sub 2](0,0) emissions from a selected 1[sup 0] x 1[sup 0] oblique view of the airglow layer at approximately 95 km altitude, which has no direct earth background and only an atmospheric background which is optically thick for the 0[sub 2](0,0) emission. From a small data set, orbital imaging of atmospheric wave structures is demonstrated, with indication of large variations in wave activity across land and sea. Comparison ground-based imagery is discussed with respect to similarity of wave variations across land/sea boundaries and future orbital mosaic image construction.

Report Numbers:

E 1.99:la-ur--96-3648
E 1.99: conf-9605252--1
conf-9605252--1
la-ur--96-3648

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Published through SciTech Connect.
12/31/1996.
"la-ur--96-3648"
" conf-9605252--1"
"DE97001694"
Wind measurements workshop, Toronto (Canada), May 1996.
Armstrong, W.T.; Shepherd, G.G.; Solheim, B.H.; Hoppe, U.-P.

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W-7405-ENG-36

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