Atmospheric Airglow—Recent Advances in Observations, Experimentations, and Modeling
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Upper Atmosphere".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 April 2020) | Viewed by 38606
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is my honor to invite you to submit your work to a Special Issue on airglow by the open-access journal Atmosphere. Airglow is very sensitive to atmospheric conditions like local temperature and number density of gas species reacting in the airglow chemistry. Changes in the temperature or gas concentrations would lead to airglow variations. Monitoring airglow has become a useful diagnostic tool to better understand the atmosphere and the dynamical and chemical processes in the MLT region. In addition, airglow observations have been used to obtain the number densities of gas species, derive wave characteristics, and infer the state of the atmosphere.
Airglow observations, experimentations, and theoretical studies have significantly advanced our understanding of airglow and their interactions with atmospheric waves in recent decades. The advancement of the new and better observing technologies has invigorated theoretical work, and in return, the theoretical studies provide directions and predictions for future experimental work. The mutual support and combined efforts have made significant progress in our understanding of airglow and our atmosphere.
In recognition of the recent advances in airglow research, the journal Atmosphere is planning a Special Issue as a compilation to showcase the current results from relavent studies in airglow observations, experimenations, and numerical modeling, from the E and F regions of the terristrial atmosphere to other planets.
Prof. Dr. Tai-Yin Huang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- airglow
- airglow chemistry
- gravity waves
- OH Meinel band
- O2 atmospheric band
- O1S greenline
- O1D redline
- metal layers
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