Computer Science – Sound
Scientific paper
Dec 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufmsa33b..02r&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SA33B-02
Computer Science
Sound
0300 Atmospheric Composition And Structure, 0342 Middle Atmosphere: Energy Deposition, 0350 Pressure, Density, And Temperature, 0355 Thermosphere: Composition And Chemistry, 0358 Thermosphere: Energy Deposition
Scientific paper
The Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) experiment was launched on December 7, 2001 into a 74.1 degree inclined, 625 km orbit onboard the TIMED satellite. The primary science goal of SABER is to achieve major advances in understanding the structure, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics in the atmospheric region extending from 60 to 180 km altitude. SABER has been operating almost continuously since activation using the space flight proven experiment approach of spectral broadband limb emission radiometry applied in 10 selected infrared spectral bands ranging from 1.27 micrometers to 17 micrometers wavelength. Observed limb emission profiles are being processed on the ground to provide vertical profiles with 2 km altitude resolution of key constituents, energetics parameters and temperature. Measurements are made both night and day over the latitude range from 52 degrees to 83 degrees with alternating hemisphere coverage every 60 days. During the time SABER has been operating, there have been two major solar storms in April 2002 and October 2003. The temporal and geographic coverage provided by SABER has provided path finding observations on the atmospheric effects of these events. In addition, the battery of measurements made by SABER has yielded new information on atmospheric energetics effects including radiative cooling due to the 15 micrometer band of CO2 and the persistence of heating due to exothermic chemical reactions. SABER observations have also provided new information on the mesopause latitudinal structure and evolution and have revealed the presence of a two-day wave in the mesopause region that previously was known only through modeling. Further, the data have shed light on the global distribution of the effects of nitric oxide vertical descent into the upper stratosphere and on the variability of atomic oxygen. This paper summarizes the major scientific results from SABER up to now using illustrative examples.
Baker Daniel
Garcia Rafael
Gordley Larry L.,
Lopez-Puertas Manuel
Mertens Chris J.
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