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AN: SA11A-0224    [Abstracts]
TI: Continual 24-hour Observations of Thermospheric Winds and Temperatures Made With the Second-Generation Optimized Fabry-Perot Doppler Imager (SOFDI)
AU: * Gerrard, A J
EM: agerrar@clemson.edu
AF: Clemson University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy 118 Kinard Laboratory, Clemson, SC 29634 United States
AU: Meriwether, J W
EM: meriwej@ces.clemson.edu
AF: Clemson University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy 118 Kinard Laboratory, Clemson, SC 29634 United States
AB: The Second generation Optimized Fabry-Perot Doppler Imager (SOFDI), a state-of-the-art triple-etalon Fabry-Perot interferometer, has been constructed, tested, and is now making continual 24-hour observations in upstate New York. The 630 nm data, originating from layer-integrated OI emission with centroid heights of 250 km at night and 220 km during the day, are analyzed so as to obtain measurements of horizontal winds and temperatures in the thermosphere. In this paper we report the most recent results from continuous 24-hour observations of these thermospheric parameters.
DE: 2415 Equatorial ionosphere
DE: 2443 Midlatitude ionosphere
DE: 2447 Modeling and forecasting
DE: 2487 Wave propagation (0689, 3285, 4275, 4455, 6934)
DE: 2494 Instruments and techniques
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005