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TI: An Overview Of The SABER Experiment And Science Results
AU: Gordley, L L
EM: larry@gats-inc.com
AF: GATS, Inc., 11864 Cannon Boulevard, Newport News, VA 23606 United States
AU: * Russell, J M
EM: james.russell@hamptonul.edu
AF: Hampton University Center for Atmospheric Sciences, 21 Tyler Street, Hampton, VA 23668 United States
AU: Mlynczak, M G
EM: m.g.mlynczak@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Langely Research Center, 21 Langley Boulevard, Hampton, VA 23681 United States
AU: Mertens, C J
AF: NASA Langely Research Center, 21 Langley Boulevard, Hampton, VA 23681 United States
AU: Remsberg, E E
AF: NASA Langely Research Center, 21 Langley Boulevard, Hampton, VA 23681 United States
AU: Picard, R H
AF: AFRL, Hanscom AFB, Hanscom, MA 01731 United States
AU: Lopez-Puertas, M
AF: IAA, Apartado 3004, Granada, 18080 Spain
AU: Wintersteiner, P
AF: ARCON Corporation, 260 Bear Hill Road, Waltham, MA 02454 United States
AU: Winick, J
AF: AFRL, Hanscom AFB, Hanscom, MA 01731 United States
AU: Siskind, D E
AF: E.O. Hulbert Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory Code 7641, Washington, DC 20375 United States
AU: Baker, D
AF: Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory, 1695 North Research Park Way,, North Logan, UT 84341 United States
AU: Garcia, R
AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AB: The Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) experiment was launched on December 7, 2001 into a 74.1o inclined, 625 km orbit onboard the TIMED satellite. The primary science goal of SABER is to achieve major advances in understanding the structure, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics in the atmospheric region extending from 60 to 180 km altitude. SABER has been operating almost continuously since activation using the space flight proven experiment approach of spectral broadband limb emission radiometry. The instrument scans the earth limb in 10 selected spectral bands ranging from 1.27 mm to 17 mm wavelength. The observed limb emission profiles are being processed on the ground to provide vertical profiles with 2 km altitude resolution of the following: temperature, O3, H2O, and CO2 mixing ratios; volume emission rates due to O2 (1D), OH (u=3,4,5), OH (u=7,8,9), and NO; key atmospheric cooling rates, solar heating rates, chemical heating rates, and airglow losses; atomic oxygen, atomic hydrogen and geostrophic winds. Measurements are made both night and day over the latitude range from 54oS to 87oN with alternating hemisphere coverage every 60 days. SABER has provided new information on energetics of the TIMED core region, observed atmospheric effects of major solar storms and made measurements in both northern and southern polar summers. This paper provides an experiment overview, orbital performance, comparisons with correlative observations and an overview of science results.
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 0341 Middle atmosphere--constituent transport and chemistry (3334)
DE: 0342 Middle atmosphere--energy deposition
DE: 0350 Pressure, density, and temperature
DE: 0355 Thermosphere--composition and chemistry
SC: SPA - Aeronomy [SA]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting