Observations of Nitric Oxide, Atomic Oxygen, and Ionized Magnesium in the MLT Region

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Dec 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agufmsa53a1160m&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #SA53A-1160

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0310 Airglow And Aurora, 0355 Thermosphere: Composition And Chemistry, 0358 Thermosphere: Energy Deposition (3369)

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We present an analysis of dayglow limb spectra obtained from the Ionospheric Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Chemistry (ISAAC) satellite instrument between 2600 and 3000 Angstroms, over tangent altitudes ranging from 85 to 120 kilometers. These spectra contain signatures of fluorescent scattering by nitric oxide in the gamma bands, emission by atomic oxygen at 2972 Angstroms, and fluorescent scattering by ionized magnesium. Our analysis includes retrievals for vertical profile densities of NO, and slant column densities of O and Mg+ at the mesopause and in the lower thermosphere. We show how these quantities are related to variable inputs of solar soft x-ray and EUV, and discuss implications for photochemical sources and dynamics of the MLT.

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