GUVI Level 3 Data Products 

O/N₂ and TEC

What am I looking at?

A combined plot of GUVI O/N₂ and CODE TEC over three days

How were they produced?

CODE TEC were obtained from ftp.unibe.ch/aiub/CODE/ and re-sampled at GUVI O/N₂ location and time. Interpolation of the TEC data was performed.

References

Daniell, R.E. Jr., Modeling of optical signatures of electron spectra in the ionospheric heating experiments, Proceedings and program for the 7^th international ionospheric effects symposium, SRI-Int, Arlington, VA, USA, 1993, p. 6B/5/1.

Strickland, D.J., J.S. Evans, and L. Paxton, Satellite remote sensing of thermospheric  O/N₂ and solar EUV: 1. Theory, J. Geophys. Res.  100, 12217, 1995.

Strickland, D.J., J. Bishop, J.S. Evans, T. Majeed, P.M. Shen, R.J. Cox, R. Link, and R.E. Huffman, Atmospheric Ultraviolet Radiance Integrated Code (AURIC): theory, software architecture, inputs, and selected results, J. Quantitative Spectroscopy Radiative Transfer, 62, 689, 1999.

Strickland, D. J.; Meier, R. R.; Walterscheid, R. L.; Craven, J. D.; Christensen, A. B.; Paxton, L. J.; Morrison, D.; Crowley, G., Quiet-time seasonal behavior of the thermosphere seen in the far ultraviolet dayglow J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 109, No. A1, A01302 10.1029/2003JA010220, 2004

Zhang, Y., L.J. Paxton, D. Morrison, B. Wolven, H. Kil, C.-I. Meng,S.B. Mende, T. Immel, O/N2 changes during October 1-4 storms: IMAGE SI-13 and TIMED/GUVI observations, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A10308, doi:10.1029/2004JA010441, 2004.

Data Files – Available for download (both CODE TEC data and GUVI O/N₂)

Summary Images – Available in both GIF and PostScript files.  On-line access for download.

Sample Images