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Ballard et al. 1993

Ballard, J., Kerridge, B.J., Morris, P.E. and Taylor, F.W. (1993). Observations of V = 1–0 emission from thermospheric nitric oxide by ISAMS. Geophysical Research Letters 20: doi: 10.1029/93GL00828. issn: 0094-8276.

The Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS) on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) has made global measurements of emission from the 1→0 band of nitric oxide (NO), using a limb viewing geometry in which the tangent point is scanned from 0 km to >150 km. Vertical profiles of atmospheric radiance often show a peak around 120 km altitude, due to the relatively high temperatures and densities of NO(v=1) found in the lower thermosphere. In this letter we report on some aspects of the radiance from NO(v=1), in particular observations of the lower thermosphere during periods of quiet and intense geomagnetic activity. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1993

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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Thermosphere—composition and chemistry, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Instruments and techniques, Ionosphere, Particle precipitation

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Geophysical Research Letters
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