OI 630.0 nm Optical Measurements of Neutral Winds, Temperatures and Airglow Enhancements during the BIME Program.

Abstract

A 100 mm aperture, field-widened Fabry-Perot interferometer was used in support of the B.I.M.E. F-region chemical release program to measure 630.0 nm night-glow line profiles and from this to determine the pattern of F-region thermospheric dynamics (neutral velocity vector vn and neutral temperature Tn versus time) from 24 Auguest 1982 to 19 September 1982 at Natal Brazil. A 3-channel, sky-mapping filter photometer measured the temporal and spatial evolution of the 630.0 nm airglow enhancement produced by the first B.I.M.E. release (8 Sept. 1982). Clouds over our observing site obscured the second B.I.M.E. release (13 Sept. 1982). (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 25, 1983
Accession Number
ADA131695

Entities

People

  • Manfred A. Biondi

Organizations

  • University of Pittsburgh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brushless Dc Motors
  • Cloud Cover
  • Clouds
  • Doppler Effect
  • Dynamics
  • Emission
  • Fabry Perot Interferometers
  • Interferometers
  • Measurement
  • Optical Instruments
  • Photometers
  • Physics
  • Radiation
  • Security
  • Twilight
  • Universities
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.