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Effect of Atmospheric Aerosol on Ground-Based Airglow Observations

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We study how the atmospheric aerosol influences the recorded emission of the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The study was performed using the data from an automatic CIMEL CE-318 sun photometer, a part of the global network of ground-based sun photometer stations (AERONET), and observations were made of atomic oxygen [OI] 557.7- and 630-nm emission lines at the Geophysical Observatory of the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (52° N, 103° E). A nonlinear characteristic of the correlation dependence was revealed between the intensities of the 557.7- and 630-nm emissions of the upper atmosphere and the aerosol optical depth (AOD): the correlation coefficients increased for small AOD (below 0.5) and decreased for large turbidities. We identified an observation period with a high positive correlation between the 557.7-/630.0-nm emission intensities and the AOD, presumably associated with vast forest fires.

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The data from the optical complex, which is part of the Angara Center, were used in the work.

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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 17-29-05047 ofi_m). The observations of the emission of the Earth’s upper atmosphere of were performed within the Program FNI II.16.

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  1. Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia

    A. V. Mikhalev & M. A. Tashchilin

  2. V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 634055, Tomsk, Russia

    S. M. Sakerin

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Mikhalev, A.V., Tashchilin, M.A. & Sakerin, S.M. Effect of Atmospheric Aerosol on Ground-Based Airglow Observations. Atmos Ocean Opt 32, 410–415 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856019040109

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