Suomi satellite brings to light a unique frontier of nighttime environmental sensing capabilities

SD Miller, SP Mills, CD Elvidge… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Most environmental satellite radiometers use solar reflectance information when it is
available during the day but must resort at night to emission signals from infrared bands …

Derivation of vertical wavelengths of gravity waves in the MLT-region from multispectral airglow observations

C Schmidt, T Dunker, S Lichtenstern, J Scheer… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present the derivation of gravity wave vertical wavelengths from OH airglow
observations of different vibrational transitions. It utilizes small phase shifts regularly …

Uncertainties in gravity wave parameters, momentum fluxes, and flux divergences estimated from multi-layer measurements of mesospheric nightglow layers

F Vargas - Advances in Space Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Measurements of dynamic parameters of atmospheric gravity waves, mainly the vertical
wavelength, the momentum flux and the momentum flux divergence, are affected by large …

Gravity wave activity in the middle atmosphere from SATI airglow observations at northern mid-latitude: Seasonal variation and comparison with tidal and planetary …

MJ López-González, M García-Comas… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
The study investigates the gravity waves activity detected in the mesosphere/lower
thermosphere (MLT) region (80–120 km) using airglow observations performed by the …

Determination of gravity wave parameters in the airglow combining photometer and imager data

PK Nyassor, RA Buriti, I Paulino… - Annales …, 2018 - angeo.copernicus.org
Mesospheric airglow measurements of two or three layers were used to characterize both
vertical and horizontal parameters of gravity waves. The data set was acquired …

Night illumination in the near-and short-wave infrared spectral bands and the potential for silicon and indium-gallium-arsenide imagers to perform night targeting

RH Vollmerhausen, RG Driggers… - Optical …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
On a moonless night, the primary source of natural illumination in the near infrared and short-
wave infrared spectral bands is airglow. We use data gathered by astronomers and …

Simulations of gravity wave‐induced variations of the OH(8,3), O2(0,1), and O(1S) airglow emissions in the MLT region

TY Huang, R George - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate gravity wave‐induced airglow intensity variations of the OH (8, 3), O2 (0, 1)
atmospheric band, and O (1S) greenline emissions in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere …

A new method to derive middle atmospheric temperature profiles using a combination of Rayleigh lidar and O2 airglow temperatures measurements

A Taori, A Jayaraman, K Raghunath… - Annales …, 2012 - angeo.copernicus.org
The vertical temperature profiles in a typical Rayleigh lidar system depends on the
backscatter photon counts and the CIRA-86 model inputs. For the first time, we show that, by …

Semidiurnal tidal activity of the middle atmosphere at mid-latitudes derived from O2 atmospheric and OH (6-2) airglow SATI observations

MJ López-González, E Rodríguez… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the tidal activity in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere
region at 37 0 N using OH Meinel and O 2 atmospheric airglow observations from 1998 to …

Gravity waves-induced airglow temperature variations, phase relationships, and Krassovsky ratio for OH (8, 3) airglow, O2 (0, 1) atmospheric band, and O (1S) …

TY Huang - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
The gravity wave-induced secular variations and fluctuations of airglow intensity-weighted
temperatures for OH (8, 3) nightglow, O 2 (0, 1) atmospheric band, and O (1 S) greenline in …