Spectroscopic and Interferometric Studies of Airglow and Auroral Processes in the Antarctic Upper Atmosphere Over theSouth Pole Station

这笔赠款提供资金继续测量南极洲南极站上空的气辉和极光。 有几种仪器（迈克尔逊干涉仪、扫描近红外光度计、四通道光度计和艾伯特-法斯蒂分光光度计）可以产生几种大气物质（氧、氮和羟基自由基）的红外和可见光谱。 这些测量用于推断中层风和温度、行星波活动以及引起极光的沉淀电子的能量。 这项研究是由本科机构进行的。

This grant provides the funds to continue to make measurements of airglow and aurora above South Pole Station, Antarctica. There are several instruments (Michelson interferometer, a scanning near- infrared photometer, a four-channel photometer and an Ebert-Fastie spectrophotometer) which produce infrared and visible spectral of several atmospheric species (oxygen, nitrogen and the hydroxyl radical). These measurements are used to deduce the mesospheric winds and temperature, planetary wave activity and the energy of the precipitating electrons which cause the aurora. This research is being done by undergraduate institution.