Nitric oxide cooling in the terrestrial thermosphere

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Feb 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980georl...7..137k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 7, Feb. 1980, p. 137-140.

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Atmospheric Heating, Cooling, Infrared Radiation, Nitric Oxide, Thermosphere, Atmospheric Temperature, Temperature Dependence

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A formulation of the nitric oxide cooling by the emission of the 5.3 micron fundamental band in the terrestrial thermosphere indicates that this process has been omitted in all thermospheric models. The cooling effect is highly variable as a consequence of its strong temperature dependence and of the variability of the nitric oxide concentration. The infrared emission is never in local thermodynamic equilibrium above 120 km altitude and the predominant cooling probably occurs during NO auroral enhancements.

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