New results on equatorial thermospheric winds and temperatures from Ethiopia, Africa

Tesema, Fasil; Mesquita, Rafael; Meriwether, John; Damtie, Baylie; Nigussie, Melessew; Makela, Jonathan; Fisher, Daniel; Harding, Brian; Yizengaw, Endawoke; Sanders, Samuel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-333-2017

Articles | Volume 35, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-333-2017

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The 14th International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-333-2017

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03 Mar 2017

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New results on equatorial thermospheric winds and temperatures from Ethiopia, Africa

Fasil Tesema, Rafael Mesquita, John Meriwether, Baylie Damtie, Melessew Nigussie, Jonathan Makela, Daniel Fisher, Brian Harding, Endawoke Yizengaw, and Samuel Sanders

Data sets

Upper atmosphere climatological models in Python pyglow https://github.com/timduly4/pyglow/

Short summary

Measurements of equatorial thermospheric winds obtained from an optical instrument called a Fabry–Perot interferometer in Ethiopia show a significance difference as compared with other longitudinal sectors. The zonal wind in this sector is small and shows a gradual decrease through out the night. Application of climatological wind and temperature models shows good agreement with the observations over Ethiopia.