New Solar Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Measurements: Model Comparisons with Thermosphere and Ionosphere Observations

Details New Solar Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Measurements: Model Comparisons with Thermosphere and Ionosphere Observations New Solar Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Measurements: Model Comparisons with Thermosphere and Ionosphere Observations

May 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusmsa51a..11s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #SA51A-11

Physics

7538 Solar Irradiance, 0310 Airglow And Aurora, 0355 Thermosphere: Composition And Chemistry, 0358 Thermosphere: Energy Deposition, 2423 Ionization Mechanisms

Scientific paper

The Solar EUV Experiment (SEE) on the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) spacecraft is performing the first comprehensive measurements of the extreme-ultraviolet and soft X-ray region of the solar spectrum since the end of the Atmosphere Explorer (AE) mission in 1981. Comparison of TIMED/SEE measurements to contemporaneous satellite observations and a calibration rocket shows that solar irradiance in the soft X-ray and hard EUV spectral ranges, from about 2 to 25 nm, is much more intense than the AE-era observations. Using these new results as inputs to thermosphere/ionosphere models causes revisions to predicted photoelectron fluxes, ionization rates, electron density, ion composition, odd-nitrogen composition, and airglow emission rates. We compare predictions to measurements for some of these, including ground based measurements of ionospheric parameters during the first phase of the TIMED mission and far-ultraviolet dayglow limb profiles measured by the GUVI instrument.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

New Solar Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Measurements: Model Comparisons with Thermosphere and Ionosphere Observations does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with New Solar Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Measurements: Model Comparisons with Thermosphere and Ionosphere Observations, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and New Solar Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Measurements: Model Comparisons with Thermosphere and Ionosphere Observations will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1722624