Sodium nightglow - Chemically independent of sodium content

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May 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jgr....91.6742s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 91, May 20, 1986, p. 6742-6746.

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Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition, Mesosphere, Nightglow, Sodium, Annual Variations, Atmospheric Models, Reaction Kinetics

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The chemistry of the nightglow, a catalytic cycle with sodium as the catalyst, is quantitatively shown to be virtually uncoupled from that of the sodium content. It follows that seasonal variations of the content and the nightglow can be fairly independent of each other, as has been observed. Observations that both mesospheric ozone and the sodium nightglow attain maxima during the equinoxes is in qualitative accord with the Chapman mechanism as the dominant source of the sodium nightglow at 5893 A.

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