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

该赠款提供资金，以支持在95公里附近实现迈克尔逊全球高分辨率热层成像干涉仪（MIGHTI）电离层连接探测器（ICON）中层顶测量的地面真实验证，以解决一个问题，该问题表明MIGHTI测量与犹他州钠（Na）激光雷达白天气候测量的比较存在偏差。北方半球的ICON卫星视图可能会朝南半球反转。这意味着MIGHTI与犹他州州立大学（USU）白天激光雷达测量同时进行飞越测量的可能性是不可行的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

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.