HR: 0800h
AN: SA11A-0217    [Abstracts]
TI: Modeling Altitude Profiles of the N2 Lyman-Birge-Hopfield Band Emissions
AU: * Murray, J
EM: djm@physics.ucf
AF: Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 United States
AU: Eastes, R
EM: reastes@mail.ucf.edu
AF: Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 United States
AU: Eastes, R
EM: reastes@mail.ucf.edu
AF: Florida Space Institute, MS-FSI, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 United States
AU: Aksnes, A
EM: aaksnes@mail.ucf.edu
AF: Florida Space Institute, MS-FSI, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 United States
AU: Budzien, S
EM: budzien@@nrl.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, Code 7607, Washington, DC 20375-5352 United States
AU: Daniell, R
EM: daniell@cpi.com
AF: Computational Physics, Inc, Springfield, VA 22151 United States
AU: Dymond, K
EM: kenneth.dymond@nrl.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, Code 7607, Washington, DC 20375-5352 United States
AB: Space-based remote sensing of the N2 Lyman-Birge-Hopfield (LBH) band emissions provides valuable insight about the Earth's environment. In this study we investigate the ability of the cascade model to reproduce the LBH limb profiles, by comparing model calculations with observations from the High resolution Ionospheric and Thermospheric Spectrograph (HITS) aboard the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS). Also, we examine how the different models existing to infer the LBH emissions match in different altitude regions. While most models only take direct excitation into account, the cascade code also includes radiative and collisional cascade contributions.
DE: 0310 Airglow and aurora
DE: 0355 Thermosphere: composition and chemistry
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005