A first-principles model of spectrally resolved 5.3 μm nitric oxide emission from aurorally dosed nighttime high-altitude terrestrial thermosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Duff, J W ^a   Dothe, H ^a   Sharma, R D ^b  

^a SPECTRAL SCIENCES INC   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHEMILUMINESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; NITROGEN OXIDES; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AURORAL EMISSION; EXOTHERMIC REACTION; MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION; ROTATIONAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRESTRIAL THERMOSPHERE; VIBRATIONAL DISTRIBUTION;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

AURORA; NITRIC OXIDE; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 27544467612     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023124     Document Type: Article

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