WINDII atmospheric wave airglow imaging

Conference · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:448029

Armstrong, W T ^[1]; Hoppe, U -P ^[2]; Solheim, B H; Shepherd, G G ^[3]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
2. Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt, Kjeller (Norway)
3. York Univ., Toronto, ON (Canada). Inst. for Space and Terrestrial Science

Preliminary WINDII nighttime airglow wave-imaging data in the UARS rolldown attitude has been analyzed with the goal to survey gravity waves near the upper boundary of the middle atmosphere. Wave analysis is performed on O[sub 2](0,0) emissions from a selected 1[sup 0] x 1[sup 0] oblique view of the airglow layer at approximately 95 km altitude, which has no direct earth background and only an atmospheric background which is optically thick for the 0[sub 2](0,0) emission. From a small data set, orbital imaging of atmospheric wave structures is demonstrated, with indication of large variations in wave activity across land and sea. Comparison ground-based imagery is discussed with respect to similarity of wave variations across land/sea boundaries and future orbital mosaic image construction.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States); Norges Almenvitenskapelig Forskningsraad, Oslo (Norway)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 448029
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-96-3648; CONF-9605252-1; ON: DE97001694
• Resource Relation: Conference: Wind measurements workshop, Toronto (Canada), May 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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66 PHYSICS
58 GEOSCIENCES
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
GRAVITY WAVES
VARIATIONS
AIRGLOW
IMAGES
TROPOSPHERE
GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTIONS
MESOSPHERE
ENERGY BALANCE
WAVE PROPAGATION
WAVE FORMS
GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS
GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION
IMAGE PROCESSING
ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
SPECTRA
GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS
MODULATION
DISTURBANCES
NOISE
INTERFEROMETRY
OXYGEN
OZONE
GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS