Showing papers by "Wilbert R. Skinner published in 1986"
TL;DR: In this paper, the dayglow of the O2 atmospheric O2(1Sigma) band system has been simulated by taking into account the three main production mechanisms of the resonance fluorescence, a photochemical term due to quenching of O(1D), and a pure chemical process.
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TL;DR: It is shown that if the effective line spacing of the band to free spectral range is nearly a rational number, the resulting signal is highly temperature sensitive, particularly at low temperatures.
Abstract: A method is described for using a single Fabry-Perot interferometer to study the emissions from an entire molecular rotation band, not just a single line to determine atmospheric temperature. It is shown that if the effective line spacing of the band to free spectral range is nearly a rational number, the resulting signal is highly temperature sensitive, particularly at low temperatures. It is shown that the finesse of the instrument is not extremely important but that the instrument function must be known very precisely. The method is illustrated with the O2 atmospheric band and an interferometer flown on the Dynamics Explorer 2 satellite.
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