A Case Study of S3-2Observations in the Late Evening Auroral Oval.

摘要

Instrumentation aboard the polar-orbiting Air Force satellite S3-2, as well as the methods by which the measurements are reduced to geophysically significant quantities, are described in great detail. The quality of the high-time resolution data is illustrated using measurements of an auroral zone overpass in the late evening sector when simultaneous DMSP imagery was also available. The validity of the data reduction processes is corroborated by a detailed comparison of simultaneous measurements of the entire complement of scientific experiments on the satellite. (Author)