Summer Mesosphere Temperature Distribution from Wide-Angle Polarization Measurements of the Twilight Sky

Autor:	Ugolnikov, Oleg S., Maslov, Igor A.
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1016/j.jastp.2013.07.002
Popis:	The paper contains the results of wide-angle polarization camera (WAPC) measurements of the twilight sky background conducted in summer 2011 and 2012 at 55.2 degs.N, 37.5 degs.E, southwards from Moscow. The method of single scattering separation based on polarization data is suggested. The obtained components of scattering matrixes show the domination of Rayleigh scattering in the mesosphere for all observation days. It made possible to retrieve the altitude distribution of temperature in the mesosphere. The results are compared with the temperature data by TIMED/SABER and EOS Aura/MLS instruments for nearby dates and locations. Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6051 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv