Session
Poster Session 1
Location
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract
The Occultation Wave Limb Sounder (OWLS) is a mission designed to investigate how Earth’s thermosphere responds to atmospheric gravity waves. The dissipation of gravity waves in the thermosphere has the potential to both heat and cool the atmosphere, with published simulation results reaching conflicting conclusions on whether gravity wave heating or cooling dominates. Comprised of two instruments, the Extreme Ultraviolet Occultation Photometers (EUV-OP) and Compact Spectrograph for Occultations on the Limb (CSOL), OWLS will seek to resolve this controversy. Properties of the atmosphere will be retrieved by both instruments through solar occultations. EUV-OP will retrieve thermospheric temperatures using this technique, while CSOL will measure gravity wave activity in the Mesosphere – Lower Thermosphere.
Document Type
Event
The Occultation Wave Limb Sounder
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
The Occultation Wave Limb Sounder (OWLS) is a mission designed to investigate how Earth’s thermosphere responds to atmospheric gravity waves. The dissipation of gravity waves in the thermosphere has the potential to both heat and cool the atmosphere, with published simulation results reaching conflicting conclusions on whether gravity wave heating or cooling dominates. Comprised of two instruments, the Extreme Ultraviolet Occultation Photometers (EUV-OP) and Compact Spectrograph for Occultations on the Limb (CSOL), OWLS will seek to resolve this controversy. Properties of the atmosphere will be retrieved by both instruments through solar occultations. EUV-OP will retrieve thermospheric temperatures using this technique, while CSOL will measure gravity wave activity in the Mesosphere – Lower Thermosphere.
