Mesopause temperatures calculated from the O2(alpha(sup 1) Delta (sub g)) twilight airglow emisson recorded at Maynooth (53.2 deg N, 6.4 deg W)

Details Mesopause temperatures calculated from the O2(alpha(sup 1) Delta (sub g)) twilight airglow emisson recorded at Maynooth (53.2 deg N, 6.4 deg W) Mesopause temperatures calculated from the O2(alpha(sup 1) Delta (sub g)) twilight airglow emisson recorded at Maynooth (53.2 deg N, 6.4 deg W)

May 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995angeo..13..558m&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae (ISSN 0992-7689), vol. 13, no. 5, p. 558-566

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Absorption Spectra, Airglow, Atmospheric Temperature, Mesopause, Oxygen Ions, Twilight Glow, Annual Variations, Infrared Spectrometers, Ireland, Spectrum Analysis

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Spectra of the O2(alpha (sup 1) Delta(sub g)) airglow emission band at 1.27 micrometers have been recorded during twilight at Maynooth (53.2 deg N, 6.4 deg W) using a Fourier transform spectrometer. Synthetic spectra have been generated for comparison with the recorded data by assuming a particular temperature at the emitting altitude, and modeling the absorption of each line in the band as it propagates downward through the atmosphere. The temperature used in generating the synthetic spectra was varied until an optimum fit was obtained between the recorded and synthetic data; this temperature was then attributed to the altitude of the emitting layer. Temperatures derived using this technique for 91 twilight periods over an 18-month period exhibit a strong seasonal behavior with a maximum in winter and a minimum in summer. Results from this study are compared with temperatures calculated from the OH(3,1) Meinel band recorded simultaneously. In winter OH temperatures exceed O2 values by about 10 K, whereas the opposite situatiion pertains in summer: this result is interpreted in terms of a possible change in the altitude of the mesopause as a function of the season. Estimates of the twilight O2(O,O) total band intensity indicate that its intensity is lower and that its decay is more rapid in summer than in winter, in agreement with earlier observations.

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