Spectral airglow temperature imager (SATI): A ground-based instrument for the monitoring of mesosphere temperature

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 30, 2004, Pages 5712-5721

  Sargoytchev, Stoyan I ^a   Brown, Stephen ^a   Solheim, Brian H ^a   Cho, Young Min ^a   Shepherd, Gordon G ^a   López González, Maria Jose ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CLIMATE CHANGE; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; MONITORING; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY;

ADIABATIC HEATING; MESOSPHERE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR-VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL AIRGLOW TEMPERATURE IMAGER (SATI);

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 4143115177     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005712     Document Type: Article

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