Seasonal wind fields as determined by the TIMED Doppler Interferometer (TIDI)

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufmsa41b0447s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #SA41B-0447

Physics

0310 Airglow And Aurora

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The TIMED Doppler Interferometer (TIDI) has been measuring the wind field in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere since early 2002. The instrument is a Fabry-Perot interferometer that simultaneously samples the limb of the Earth with four separate telescopes providing two forward views and two rearward views, one of each on either side of the orbital path. At equator crossings, these two side views are separated by about 30 degrees of longitude at the tangent point altitude, or 2 hours of local time. On any orbit TIDI obtains two horizontal vector winds at the dayside equator crossing and two on the nightside equator crossing for all low latitudes. The precession rate of TIMED requires a two month average of data to sample all local solar times This paper will describe the wind field that has been determined by the TIDI since operations commenced. The mean wind and tidal amplitudes are examined and seasonal variability examined. Results are also compared to fields measured earlier by HRDI and WINDII on the UARS spacecraft.

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