Horizontal and vertical winds and temperatures in the equatorial thermosphere: Measurements from Natal, Brazil during August-September 1982

Details Horizontal and vertical winds and temperatures in the equatorial thermosphere: Measurements from Natal, Brazil during August-September 1982 Horizontal and vertical winds and temperatures in the equatorial thermosphere: Measurements from Natal, Brazil during August-September 1982

Jul 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985p%26ss...33..817b&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, Volume 33, Issue 7, p. 817-823.

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Fabry-Perot interferometer measurements of Doppler shifts and widths of the 630.0 nm nightglow line have been used to determine the neutral winds and temperatures in the equatorial thermosphere over Natal, Brazil during August-September 1982. During this period, in the early night (2130 U.T.) the average value of the horizontal wind vector was 95 m s-1 at 100° azimuth, and the temperature varied from a low of 950 K during geomagnetically quiet conditions to a high of ~ 1400 K during a storm (6 September). The meridional winds were small, <~, 50 m s-1, and the eastward zonal winds reached a maximum value 1-3 h after sunset, in qualitative agreement with TGCM predictions. On 26 August, an observed persistent convergence in the horizontal meridional flow was accompanied by a downward vertical velocity and an increase in the thermospheric temperature measured overhead. Oscillations with periods of 40-45 min in both the zonal and vertical wind velocities were observed during the geomagnetic storm of 6 September, suggesting gravity wave modulation of the equatorial thermospheric flow.

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