RAPID: Sodium (Na) Lidar Validation of MIGHTI Daytime Temperature Observations Onboard NASA ICON Satellite

这笔赠款用于支持为全球高分辨率热层成像(MIGHTi)电离层连接探测器(ICON)95公里附近的中层顶测量实现迈克尔逊干涉仪地面真实验证的努力，以解决在MIGHTi测量与犹他州钠(Na)激光雷达白天气候测量的比较中存在偏差的问题。北半球的图标卫星图像可能会反向朝向南半球。这将意味着MIGHTi进行与犹他州立大学(USU)白天激光雷达测量同时进行的飞越测量的可能性将是不可行的。这一裁决反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant provides funding to support an effort to achieve ground truth validation of Michelson Interferometer for Global High-resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mesopause measurements near 95km to resolve an issue suggesting the existence of a bias in the comparisons of MIGHTI measurements with Utah State Sodium (Na) lidar daytime climatological measurements. The ICON satellite view of the northern hemisphere may be reversed toward the southern hemisphere. This would mean that the possibility of overflight measurements by MIGHTI that are simultaneous with the Utah State University (USU) daytime lidar measurements would not be feasible.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.