Ozone density distribution in the mesosphere (50-90 km) measured by the SME limb scanning near infrared spectrometer
Abstract
The ozone densities between 50 and 90 km are deduced from 1.27 µm airglow measured on the Solar Mesosphere Explorer satellite. The derived densities agree well with those made simultaneously from SME by the ultraviolet spectrometer. The data set extends from pole to pole at about 3 pm, for most sunlit latitudes. At low altitudes, in the mesosphere, there are larger variations in ozone density in the winter latitudes than in the summer. Above the meso-pause the day-to-day variation in ozone density is a factor of two at most latitudes and times.
- Publication:
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Geophysical Research Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1029/GL010i004p00245
- Bibcode:
- 1983GeoRL..10..245T
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Composition;
- Gas Density;
- Mesosphere;
- Ozone;
- Ozonometry;
- Solar Mesosphere Explorer;
- Infrared Spectrometers;
- Mixing;
- Near Infrared Radiation;
- Reaction Kinetics;
- Aeronomy: Composition (atomic or molecular);
- Particles and Fields-Ionosphere: Airglow