Aurora and Airglow

Volume 2 Joseph W. Chamberlain. Physics of Volume 12 the Aurora and Airglow. 1961 ... 

Beno Gutenberg. Physics of the Earth s Interior. 1959 Joseph W. Chamberlain. Physics of the Aurora and Airglow. 1961 S. K. Runcorn (ed.). Continental Drift. 1962 C. E. Junge. Air Chemistry and Radioactivity. 1963... 

Brekke, A., and Egeland, A. (1983). The Northern Light From Mythology to space Research, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York. Chamberlain, J. W. (1961). Physics of the Aurora and Airglow, Academic Press, New York. 

O( S) in the Upper Atmosphere. The presence of 0(. S ) in the upper atmosphere is indicated by the emission line at 5577 A in the airglow and aurora. The mechanism of formation and destruction of O( S) atoms has been of great interest in acronomy. Zipf (1085) gives a detailed account of various processes of O( S) in the upper atmosphere. 

To evaluate the thermodynamic and radiation properties of a natural or perturbed state of the upper atmosphere or ionosphere, the thermal and transport properties of heated air are required. Such properties are also of particular interest in plasma physics, in gas laser systems, and in basic studies of airglow and the aurora. In the latter area the release of certain chemical species into the upper atmosphere results in luminous clouds that display the resonance electronic-vibrational-rotational spectrum of the released species. Such spectra are seen in rocket releases of chemicals for upper-atmosphere studies and on reentry into the atmosphere of artificial satellites. Of particular interest in this connection are the observed spectra of certain metallic oxides and air diatomic species. From band-intensity distribution of the spectra and knowledge of the /-values for electronic and vibrational transitions, the local conditions of the atmosphere can be determined.1... 

E. B. Armstrong and A. Dalgarno, editors, The Airglow and Aurorae, Per-gamon, London, 1956. 

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