Recent observations of dynamic variations of the thermosphere and ionosphere by the Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTIs)
Abstract
The Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTIs) consist of fourteen all-sky cooled-CCD imagers, five Fabry-Perot interferometers (FPIs), three meridian scanning photometers, and four airglow temperature photometers. They measure two-dimensional pattern, Doppler wind, and temperature through airglow emissions from oxygen (wavelength: 557.7 nm) and OH (near infrared band) in the mesopause region (80-100 km) and from oxygen (630.0 nm) in the thermosphere/ionosphere (200-300 km). They are in automatic operation at 14 stations at Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, far-east Russia, Japan, Canada, Hawaii, Norway, and Nigeria. Station information and quick look plots are available at http://stdb2.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/omti/. In this presentation we show recent observations of the dynamical variations of the thermosphere and ionosphere observed by OMTIs at various latitudes from the equator to the auroral zone.
- Publication:
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41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- July 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016cosp...41E1791S