Continual 24-hour Observations of Thermospheric Winds and Temperatures Made With the Second-Generation Optimized Fabry-Perot Doppler Imager (SOFDI)
Abstract
The Second generation Optimized Fabry-Perot Doppler Imager (SOFDI), a state-of-the-art triple-etalon Fabry-Perot interferometer, has been constructed, tested, and is now making continual 24-hour observations in upstate New York. The 630 nm data, originating from layer-integrated OI emission with centroid heights of 250 km at night and 220 km during the day, are analyzed so as to obtain measurements of horizontal winds and temperatures in the thermosphere. In this paper we report the most recent results from continuous 24-hour observations of these thermospheric parameters.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2005
- Bibcode:
- 2005AGUFMSA11A0224G
- Keywords:
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- 2415 Equatorial ionosphere;
- 2443 Midlatitude ionosphere;
- 2447 Modeling and forecasting;
- 2487 Wave propagation (0689;
- 3285;
- 4275;
- 4455;
- 6934);
- 2494 Instruments and techniques