The airglow continuum at high latitudes - An estimate of the NO concentration

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Feb 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981jgr....86..623w&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, Feb. 1, 1981, p. 623-628. Research supported by the International Institute of Meteor

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Airglow, Atmospheric Composition, Nitric Oxide, Polar Regions, Rocket Sounding, Thermosphere, Atmospheric Chemistry, Auroral Zones, Gas Ionization, Oxygen Ions, Spectral Resolution

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A high-latitude (68 deg N) rocket measurement of the NO2 continuum at 540 nm yielded an overhead intensity of 1.14 R/A. The volume emission profile has been used with O densities, derived from measurements of the oxygen emissions made from the same rocket, to determine the NO profile for an air afterglow, which is excited via both two-body and three-body recombination paths. It is concluded that the NO concentration was 8 x 10 to the 8th per cu cm, with a factor 2 uncertainty at the peak, and that this enhancement from quiet ionospheric conditions is probably due to extended particle precipitation prior to the launching.

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