Midlatitude observations of the night airglow: Implications to quenching near the mesopause

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Dec 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9821593j&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A12, p. 21,593-21,603

Physics

Atomic Physics

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Atmospheric Models, Mesopause, Nightglow, Quenching (Atomic Physics), Spectroscopic Analysis, Emission Spectra, Hydroxyl Emission, Mathematical Models, Oxygen, Oxygen Atoms, Spectrographs

Scientific paper

Midlatitude observations of the night airglow from 3000 to 9200 A were made with a ground-based panchromatic intensified charge coupled device (ICCD) spectrograph over a period of 4 months. Intensities of the Herzberg 1, Chamberlain, Herzberg 2, and atmospheric systems of molecular oxygen, the Meinel bands of hydroxyl, and the atomic oxygen 5577-A emission were measured. Synthetic spectra and integration were used to determine the emission intensities of these features. The results were used to constrain a middle atmospheric model. Output from this model showed that quenching processes severely depopulate the states to the extent that electronic, vibrational, and rotational populations do not retain the signatures of the excitation reactions or the radiative depopulation processes.

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