Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3033-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3033-2020
Research article
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10 Jun 2020
Research article |  | 10 Jun 2020

A comparison of OH nightglow volume emission rates as measured by SCIAMACHY and SABER

Yajun Zhu, Martin Kaufmann, Qiuyu Chen, Jiyao Xu, Qiucheng Gong, Jilin Liu, Daikang Wei, and Martin Riese

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OH airglow emissions can be used to derive rotational temperature and trace constituents in the mesopause region, but systematic differences exist for the follow-up data using OH emission radiance as measured by SCIAMACHY and SABER. This paper makes a comparison of OH emission radiance as measured by them and shows the systematic differences between the two measurements. The radiometric calibration of the two instruments could potentially explain the differences between the two measurements.