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Mende et al. 1994
Mende, S.B., Swenson, G.R., Geller, S.P. and Spear, K.A. (1994). Topside observation of gravity waves. Geophysical Research Letters 21: doi: 10.1029/94GL01696. issn: 0094-8276.

The AEPI (Atmospheric Emissions Photometric Imager) experiment on the ATLAS-1 shuttle mission (launched March 24, 1992) imaged the earth night airglow emission in the O2 Atmospheric (0,0) bands, at 762.0 nm. Earthward views of O2 A bands show structure from gravity waves which exhibit extended horizontal structure with horizontal wavelengths on the order of 50-100 km. These observations of the O2 A (0,0) bands are particularly interesting since in this wavelength the lower atmosphere absorbs all the earth-reflected emissions and most of the spectrally diffuse backgrounds. Herein we present observations of gravity waves using a topside airglow imaging technique. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1994

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Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Waves and tides, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Thermospheric dynamics, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Instruments and techniques
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