TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurements of thermospheric response to auroral activities
AU - Okano, S.
AU - Kim, J. S.
AU - Ichikawa, T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements-The work reported here was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant ATM 84-00789. The magnetic data were provided by the World Data Center A for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Boulder, Colorado.
PY - 1985/7
Y1 - 1985/7
N2 - The Joule heating produced by auroral electrojets and its thermospheric response can be studied by monitoring the thermospheric temperatures by means of optical methods; simultaneously investigating the concurrent auroral electrojet activities using geomagnetic records obtained from stations along a meridian close to the observation site of optical measurements. We report, in this paper, the measurements of thermospheric response to auroral activities which were made at Albany (42.68°N, 73.82°W), New York on 2 September 1978 (U.T.) when an isolated substorm occurred. The thermospheric temperatures were measured by using a high-resolution Fabry-Perot interferometer that determines the line profiles of the [OI] 6300 Å line emission. The intensities and latitudinal positions of auroral electrojets were obtained by the analysis of magnetograms from the IMS Fort Churchill meridian chain stations.
AB - The Joule heating produced by auroral electrojets and its thermospheric response can be studied by monitoring the thermospheric temperatures by means of optical methods; simultaneously investigating the concurrent auroral electrojet activities using geomagnetic records obtained from stations along a meridian close to the observation site of optical measurements. We report, in this paper, the measurements of thermospheric response to auroral activities which were made at Albany (42.68°N, 73.82°W), New York on 2 September 1978 (U.T.) when an isolated substorm occurred. The thermospheric temperatures were measured by using a high-resolution Fabry-Perot interferometer that determines the line profiles of the [OI] 6300 Å line emission. The intensities and latitudinal positions of auroral electrojets were obtained by the analysis of magnetograms from the IMS Fort Churchill meridian chain stations.
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U2 - 10.1016/0032-0633(85)90038-8
DO - 10.1016/0032-0633(85)90038-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:46549094061
VL - 33
SP - 841
EP - 845
JO - Planetary and Space Science
JF - Planetary and Space Science
SN - 0032-0633
IS - 7
ER -