Retrieval of atmospheric quantities from remote sensing measurements of nightglow emissions in the MLT region / von Qiuyu Chen. Wuppertal, 2020
Content
- Introduction
- Composition and structure of the atmosphere
- The mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT)
- Atomic oxygen and hydrogen in the MLT
- Atmospheric waves and temperature observations in the MLT
- Remote sensing techniques and scientific applications
- Atmospheric nightglow modeling
- Hydroxyl nightglow emission
- OH emission characterization
- OH nightglow photochemistry
- Volume emission rate of OH nightglow
- Rotational structure of OH emission
- OH nightglow observations
- Oxygen atmospheric band emission
- O2 A-band nightglow photochemistry
- Volume emission rate of O2 A-band nightglow
- The rotational structure of the O2 A-band
- Radiative transfer of the O2 A-band
- Methodology for the retrieval of atomic oxygen and hydrogen
- Methodology for the retrieval of atmospheric temperature
- Inverse modeling
- Atomic oxygen and hydrogen derived from GOMOS OH airglow measurements
- Measurements and data processing
- Retrieval results of atomic oxygen
- Atomic oxygen abundances
- Error analysis
- Spatial and temporal analysis
- Comparison with SCIAMACHY data
- Comparison with other datasets
- Retrieval results of atomic hydrogen
- Atmospheric temperature derived from GRIPS-F OH airglow measurements
- Atmospheric temperature derived from AtmoSHINE O2 A-band measurements
- In-orbit experiments and data processing
- AtmoSHINE on Hongyun satellite
- Instrument operation and performance
- Data transmission and processing
- Characterization of processed spectra
- Result evaluation
- Comparison of the results
- Summary
- Appendix
- Chemical reaction parameters in OH airglow modeling
- Collisional rate coefficients in OH airglow modeling
- Fitting of collisional rate coefficients in OH airglow modeling for v=8
- Selection of the collisional rate coefficients for OH(v=8)
- Fitting of the collisional rate coefficients for OH(v=8)
- O2 A-band nightglow modeling parameters
- Multiple linear regression analysis of atomic oxygen for different cases
- GRIPS-F dark current correction algorithm
- GRIPS-F instrument line shape function
- Three peak method for OH(3-1) rotational temperature retrieval
- AtmoSHINE in-orbit tests
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Bibliography