A Michelson interferometer for ground-based measurements of upper atmospheric winds

William A. Gault; Stephen Brown; Avygdor Moise; Dongyu Liang; Gordon G. Shepherd

doi:10.1364/OAM.1993.ThMM.2

OSA Annual Meeting
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1993),
paper ThMM.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OAM.1993.ThMM.2

A Michelson interferometer for ground-based measurements of upper atmospheric winds

William A. Gault, Stephen Brown, Avygdor Moise, Dongyu Liang, and Gordon G. Shepherd

OSA Annual Meeting 1993

Toronto Canada
3–8 October 1993
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Aero-Optics (ThMM)

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W. A. Gault, S. Brown, A. Moise, D. Liang, and G. G. Shepherd, "A Michelson interferometer for ground-based measurements of upper atmospheric winds," in OSA Annual Meeting, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1993), paper ThMM.2.

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Abstract

The E Region Wind INterferometer (ERWIN) was designed specifically to measure winds in the cold (200 K) region of the earth’s atmosphere near the mesopause (85–100 km altitude) by detecting the Doppler shifts of the faint airglow emissions occuring there.

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