The determination of the atomic oxygen concentration and associated parameters in the lower ionosphere
Abstract
The paper presents a study of the concentrations of atomic oxygen (O) at heights from 60 to 140 km using a rocket-borne lamp. The measurements of absorption and resonance fluorescence in the atmospheric atomic oxygen determined absolute values of (O), with the maximum value of (O) found near 95 km. The distribution of atomic oxygen above 120 km in winter showed a gradient smaller than expected for diffusive equilibrium; irregularities in the (O) distributions have scale sizes characteristic of gravity waves.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A
- Pub Date:
- January 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1098/rspa.1980.0006
- Bibcode:
- 1980RSPSA.369..379D
- Keywords:
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- Atom Concentration;
- D Region;
- Ionospheric Composition;
- Ionospheric Sounding;
- Oxygen Atoms;
- Rocket-Borne Instruments;
- Emission Spectra;
- Ionospheric Electron Density;
- Line Spectra;
- Luminaires;
- Resonance Fluorescence;
- Rocket Sounding;
- Self Absorption;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- Ultraviolet Radiation;
- Geophysics