Observations of O sub 2 ( sup 1. Sigma. ) and OH nightglow during the ALOHA-90 campaign

Journal Article · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991 · Geophysical Research Letters (American Geophysical Union); (United States)

OSTI ID:5518446

Yee, Jenghwa; Niciejewski, Rick; Luo, Ming Zhao ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States)

Two spectroscopic instruments, a {1/4} meter Ebert-Fastie spectrometer and a Michelson interferometer, were flown aboard the NCAR Electra during the ALOHA-90 campaign. These instruments were designed to carry out measurements of the brightnesses and rotational temperatures of the O{sub 2} Atmospheric (0-1) band and several OH Meinel bands simultaneously with sodium lidar observations. The spectrometer results taken during the nights of March 25 and March 31 are reported. Wave-like oscillations in both O{sub 2} and OH airglow brightnesses were clearly present during both flights and a strong positive correlation of OH band brightness with sodium column density was found. A slightly weaker correlation of O{sub 2} band brightness with sodium column density was also detected. The measured brightness ratio between the OH (7-4) and (7-3) bands is found to be 11.2{plus minus}0.3, which is in good agreement with the calculated ratios of 12.9 by Mies (1974) and 10.2 by Langhoff et al. (1986).

• OSTI ID: 5518446
• Journal Information: Geophysical Research Letters (American Geophysical Union); (United States), Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters (American Geophysical Union); (United States) Vol. 18:7; ISSN 0094-8276; ISSN GPRLA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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