Discovery of the FeO orange bands in the terrestrial night airglow spectrum obtained with OSIRIS on the Odin spacecraft

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Evans, W F J ^a,b   Gattinger, R L ^c   Slanger, T G ^d   Saran, D V ^d   Degenstein, D A ^c   Llewellyn, E J ^c  

^a NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; SPACECRAFT;

AIRGLOW EMISSIONS; ALTITUDE PROFILES; EMISSION RATES; IMAGING SPECTROGRAPH; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LIMB-SCANNING; LOW LATITUDES; SOURCE MECHANISMS; SPECTRAL PROFILE; SYNTHETIC SPECTRA; UPPER LIMITS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

IRON OXIDES;

AIRGLOW; IRON OXIDE; LUMINESCENCE; MESOSPHERE; NITROGEN OXIDES; SODIUM; SPACECRAFT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 78649504566     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045310     Document Type: Article

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