Polar Measurements of Mesospheric CO

• Main Author: Burrows, Susannah
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons at Oberlin 2005
• Subjects: AST/RO; Telescope; Mesospheric; Fitting; Wind; Physics; Antarctic; The Antarctic; South Pole; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/462; https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/context/honors/article/1461/viewcontent/Burrows_Polar_thesis_05.pdf

An optically thin layer of carbon monoxide in the Earth's mesosphere results in strong, sharp emission peaks at CO's rotational transition frequencies. The J = 2 → 1 and J = 4 → 3 transitions were observed by the Antarctic Sub-millimeter Telescope / Remote Observatory (AST/RO), located at...