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Neutral temperatures in the lower thermosphere from N 2 Lyman‐Birge‐Hopfield (LBH) band profiles
Author(s) -
Aksnes A.,
Eastes R.,
Budzien S.,
Dymond K.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2006gl026255
Subject(s) - thermosphere , satellite , ionosphere , airglow , spectrograph , atmospheric sciences , physics , atmospheric models , remote sensing , incoherent scatter , spectrometer , environmental science , geology , geophysics , astronomy , optics , spectral line
Measurements of the neutral temperature in the lower thermosphere, using high resolution (0.13 nm) N 2 Lyman‐Birge‐Hopfield (LBH) band emissions are presented. The data were taken by the High‐resolution Ionospheric and Thermospheric Spectrograph (HITS) instrument aboard the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite ( ARGOS ). By fitting the LBH band profiles, temperatures in the thermosphere between ∼150 and 270 km have been retrieved. Temperatures retrieved for three geomagnetically quiet days, 28–30 July 2001 are consistent with temperatures from the Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter (MSIS) model.