Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1988
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Planetary and Space Science, Volume 36, Issue 9, p. 892-892.
Physics
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Scientific paper
The determination of atomic oxygen concentrations in the mesosphere and thermosphere has long been of interest: a knowledge of these concentrations has important implications for many processes in the terrestrial atmosphere, e.g. vertical transport and auroral excitation mechanisms. In recent years there has been an intense on-going debate as to whether the concentration in the vicinity of the atomic oxygen peak, near 100 km, is low (1 × 1011 cm-3) or high (1 × 1012 cm-3). Since different investigators have advanced various views there has been extreme confusion among many researchers. In an attempt to explain, and understand, the reasons for the apparently wide range in assumed atomic oxygen concentrations a special session was included in the San Francisco Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. A number of these papers are collected together in this issue of Planetary and Space Science. While these papers do not answer the question of high or low concentrations they do provide a convenient focus for much of the available data and interpretation.
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