Kinetic and spectroscopic requirements for the inference of chemical heating rates and atomic hydrogen densities from OH Meinel band measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 647-650

  Mlynczak, Martin G ^a   Zhou, Daniel K ^b   Adler Golden, Steven M ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SPECTRAL SCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; HYDROGEN; OZONE; REACTION KINETICS; SPECTROSCOPY; DEPOSITION RATES; RATE CONSTANTS;

ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; HYDROXYL; MEINEL BAN EMISSION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATOMS;

ATOMIC HYDROGEN; ATOMIC HYDROGEN DENSITY; CHEMICAL ENERGY; COLLISIONAL REMOVAL; OH MEINEL BAND; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC PARAMETERS; VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED;

EID: 0032025844     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00325     Document Type: Article

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