Physics – Space Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002jgra..107.1071d&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), Volume 107, Issue A6, pp. SIA 2-1, CiteID 1071, DOI 10.1029/2001JA000143
Physics
Space Physics
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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Airglow And Aurora, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Chemical Kinetic And Photochemical Properties, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Thermosphere-Composition And Chemistry
Scientific paper
A model of the production and loss of odd nitrogen species (mainly, N(4S), N(2D), NO, and NO+) and the enhanced vibration-rotation band emission from NO in the infrared from the aurorally dosed terrestrial nighttime thermosphere is described. This model is assessed by analyzing the observations of the fundamental (Δv = -1, ~5.3 μm) and overtone (Δv = -2, ~2.7 μm) NO vibration-rotation band limb emissions made by a Michelson interferometer and radiometer, respectively, aboard the Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrumentation for Shuttle (CIRRIS-1A) experiment on the space shuttle Discovery during an auroral event. The auroral dosing along the line of sight is inferred from the 2.7-μm radiance profiles using a self-consistent procedure. The dosing obtained is then used in the model to predict the spectrally resolved emission in the 5.3-μm region. The calculated overtone radiance profiles agree with the measured ones at lower tangent altitudes, where the signal-to-noise ratio is large. The calculation, however, underpredicts the observed radiance, both fundamental and overtone, at higher tangent altitudes by a factor of ~3 and gives a colder rotational temperature for the rotationally hot component of the spectrally resolved emission from nascent NO. The causes of this discrepancy and its impact on the densities of the odd N species are discussed.
Dothe Hoang
Duff James W.
Sharma Ramesh D.
Wheeler N. B.
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