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Discussion of atmospheric heat sources based on the analysis of satellite drag data

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Dynamics of Satellites / Dynamique des Satellites

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This review describes the main effects found to affect the physical properties of the upper atmosphere: the solar activity effect, the diurnal variation, the geomagnetic activity effect and the semiannual and annual variation. Furthermore a theoretical investigation of the energy balance of the upper atmosphere has been carried out by solving the time–dependent heat conduction equation combined with the hydrostatic law. Three reasons are given that the heating of the thermosphere due to absorption of solar extreme ultraviolet radiation alone cannot explain the observed diurnal variation of density and temperature. Thus it is necessary to have another heat source in addition. There is evidence that this source derives its energy ultimately from the solar corpuscular radiation and the solar wind. If an additional heat source is used, which has a maximum at about 9h local time and a flux of 1 erg cm-2 sec-1, a time-dependent model of the upper atmosphere is obtained that is in good agreement with the observed densities.

The theoretical part of this review is based on investigations of upper atmo­sphere physics carried out under the auspices of Dr. Robert Jastrow, chief of the Institute for Space Studies and the Theoretical Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in cooperation with Dr. Isadore Harris. The results are published (June 1962) in detail in the NASA Technical Notes D 1443 and D 1444 by Isadore Harris and Wolfgang Priester. These notes contain also complete tables of the properties of the upper atmosphere as function of height, local time and solar activity.

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    Wolfgang Priester

  2. Institute for Space Studies, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, New York 27, N.Y., USA

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Priester, W. (1963). Discussion of atmospheric heat sources based on the analysis of satellite drag data. In: Roy, M. (eds) Dynamics of Satellites / Dynamique des Satellites. IUTAM Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48130-7_13

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