Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011georl..3811803s&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 11, CiteID L11803
Physics
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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Airglow And Aurora, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Middle Atmosphere: Composition And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Pressure, Density, And Temperature, Atmospheric Processes: Remote Sensing (4337)
Scientific paper
For the first time OSIRIS has derived and analyzed mesopause region temperatures at the summer poles. Temperatures have been derived from observations of O2 A-band emission spectra, with a typical estimated accuracy of better than ±3 K at altitudes near 90 km. The current results show that OSIRIS temperatures near the mesopause are usually ˜10 K colder than CO2 temperature results from the SABER instrument on board the TIMED satellite, however the difference between OSIRIS temperatures and SOFIE ice temperatures agrees well with previous model results, and OSIRIS temperatures are consistent with potassium lidar derived atmospheric temperatures. Between 2003-2010, the retrieved OSIRIS polar summer mesopause temperatures are often below 120 K, and on 16 January 2008, at 80°S and 223°E, a temperature of 91 ± 6 K was retrieved at an altitude of 92 km.
Bourassa Adam E.
Degenstein Douglas Arthur
Gattinger Richard L.
Llewellyn Edam J.
Lloyd Nick D.
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