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IMAGE O/N2 site at JHU/APL

IMAGE FUV SI plots of O/N2 Ratios

ResourceID

spase://NASA/DisplayData/IMAGE/FUV/SI/O_N2_Ratios

Description

This data set consists of images of thermospheric O/N2 column density ratios at 2-min resolution during times of strong geomagnetic storms (Dst.LT.-80nT) of 2000-2005. The ratios are generated from dayside airglow observations of the IMAGE Far Ultraviolet (FUV) Spectrographic Imager (SI). The SI has a peak response at the OI 135.6 nm oxygen emission line and a bandpass of 131.0 to 140.0 nm which includes the LBH band from N2 molecules. For each O/N2 plot, there is a plot of the SI image from which the O/N2 plot was generated, and there is an IDL saveset of the content of the O/N2 maps. The Information URL of this descriptor identifies detailed discussions of the derivations of O/N2 rations from the SI images.

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DisplayData

ResourceID

spase://NASA/DisplayData/IMAGE/FUV/SI/O_N2_Ratios

ResourceHeader

ResourceName

IMAGE FUV SI plots of O/N2 Ratios

ReleaseDate

2020-07-07 19:48:33Z

Description

Contacts

	Role	Person	StartDate	StopDate	Note
1.	DataProducer	spase://SMWG/Person/Yongliang.Zhang

InformationURL

Name

Data descriptive text at JHU_APL

URL

https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.php?documentation

PriorIDs

spase://VSPO/DisplayData/IMAGE/FUV/SI/O_N2_Ratios

AccessInformation

RepositoryID

spase://SMWG/Repository/JHU_APL

Availability

Online

AccessRights

Open

AccessURL

Name

IMAGE O/N2 site at JHU/APL

URL

https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.php?data

Description

O/N2 and FUV/SI image plots in PNG format

Format

PNG

InstrumentIDs

spase://SMWG/Instrument/IMAGE/FUV

MeasurementType

ImageIntensity

TemporalDescription

TimeSpan

StartDate

2000-05-24 00:00:00

StopDate

2005-05-18 23:59:59

Cadence

PT2M

ObservedRegion

Earth.NearSurface.Thermosphere

Caveats

(1) O/N2 values are available only for dayside with solar zenith angle less than 90 degrees. (2) Auroral emissions are not removed. The O/N2 data in the auroral oval should not be used. The original SI-13 images are also provided in the APL web site to identify auroral regions. (3) SI-13 flat field algorithm is provided by the IMAGE FUV team. But it may not work well all the time. This impacts the O/N2 products. (4) Pointing of SI-13 is still subject to some errors even after attitude correction is done. (5) A fixed O/N2 value (assumed) for quiet times may ignore the effects of season and solar EUV flux.