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Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-7-317-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-7-317-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
Research article
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30 Nov 2018
Research article |  | 30 Nov 2018

Neutral temperature and atmospheric water vapour retrieval from spectral fitting of auroral and airglow emissions

Joshua M. Chadney and Daniel K. Whiter

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We measure spectra of upper atmospheric emissions in optical wavelengths using the High Throughput Imaging Echelle Spectrograph (HiTIES) located on Svalbard. These spectra contain superposed emissions originating from different altitudes. In this paper, we describe a fitting method which allows us to separate the measured emissions, thus allowing us to measure neutral temperatures at different altitudes and the density of water vapour in the atmosphere above the instrument.
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