On the Temporal Variations of the OH Nightglow
- 1 January 1963
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- Vol. 20 (1) , 1-4
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1963)020<0001:ottvot>2.0.co;2
Abstract
The hydroxyl bands in the glow emanating from the earth's upper atmosphere are chemically excited. The two possible precursor reactions are O3+H→OH*+O2 and O2*+H→OH*+O. Arguments are advanced in this paper to show that the night-time variations of the emission intensifies stimulated by these two reactions might be characteristically different. The relative importance of the reactions can therefore be judged by a systematic observational study of the intensity variations.Keywords
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