Lidar and Modeling Studies of the Mesospheric Iron and Sodium Layers
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description: The mesospheric metals are believed to be the product of meteoric ablation. Very thin and brief layers observed in our lidar data, attributed to recently ablated meteors, are used to examine this hypothesis. The altitude distribution of these trails is compared to a model of meteoric deposition, meteor radar data, and average Fe and Na density profiles. The total meteoric influx is derived from our data and argued to be a lower limit on the actual meteoric influx.
abstract: The mesospheric metals are believed to be the product of meteoric ablation. Very thin and brief layers observed in our lidar data, attributed to recently ablated meteors, are used to examine this hypothesis. The altitude distribution of these trails is compared to a model of meteoric deposition, meteor radar data, and average Fe and Na density profiles. The total meteoric influx is derived from our data and argued to be a lower limit on the actual meteoric influx.
author: Kane, Timothy Joseph
keywords: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical
date published: 2014-12-16T22:22:59Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:05Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/71980