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Yee et al. 1991
Yee, J., Niciejewski, R. and Luo, M.Z. (1991). Observations of O2 (¹S) and OH nightglow during the ALOHA-90 Campaign. Geophysical Research Letters 18: doi: 10.1029/91GL01295. issn: 0094-8276.

Two spectroscopic instruments, a 1/4 meter Ebert-Fastie spectrometer and a Michelson interferometer, were flown aboard the NCAR Electra during the ALOHA-90 campaign. These instruments were designed to carry out measurements of the brightnesses and rotatinal temperatures of the O2 Atmospheric (0--1) band and several OH Meinel bands simulataneously with sodium lidar observations. The spectrometer results taken during the nights of March 25 and March 31 are reported. Wave-like oscillations in both O2 and OH airglow brightness were clearly present during both flights and a strong positive correlation of OH band brightness with sodium column density was found. A slightly weaker correlation of O2 band brightness with sodium column density was also detected. The measured brightness ratio between the OH (7--4) and (7--3) bands is found to be 11.2¿0.3, which is in good agreement with the calculated ratios of 12.8 by Mies (1974) and 10.2 by Langhoff et al. (1986). --American Geophysical Union 1991

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