Tomographic reconstruction of gravity wave parameters from satellite-borne airglow observations / von Rui Song. Wuppertal, 2018
Content
- Introduction
- Atmospheric structure
- The dynamics in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT)
- Observations of GWs in the atmosphere
- Chapter summary
- Temperature measurements from O2 A-band airglow observations
- O2 A-band airglow emission
- Production and loss mechanisms
- Photolysis rates
- Volume emission rate
- Rotational structure of the O2 A-band emission
- Airglow perturbations induced by GWs
- Radiative transfer
- Ray tracing of line-of-sight (LOS)
- Observational spectra modelling
- Retrieval algorithm
- Chapter summary
- `Target mode' 2-D tomographic reconstruction of small-scale GWs
- 1-D GW retrieval
- 2-D GW retrieval
- Horizontal wavelength derivation from phase analysis
- Horizontal wavelength derivation from 2-D tomography
- `Target mode' observation
- Chapter summary
- `Sweep mode' 3-D tomographic reconstruction of GW parameters
- Summary and outlook
- Appendix
- Acknowledgements
- bibliography