SA037-04
Thermospheric Wind Observations from MIGHTI on ICON: An Overview of Instrument Performance and Data Characteristics

Wednesday, 16 December 2020: 08:42
Virtual
Christoph R Englert, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, John Harlander, SCSU, St Cloud, MN, United States, Kenneth David Marr, Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, Brian Joseph Harding, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States and Thomas J Immel, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
Recorded Presentation
Abstract:
The Michelson Interferometer for Global High-resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) is one of the four instruments on the Ionospheric Connection (ICON) Explorer, launched in October 2019. MIGHTI uses the atomic oxygen green and red lines and the molecular oxygen A-band to observe thermospheric wind and temperature profiles, respectively. Here, we present an overview of the wind observations and key characteristics of the data-set. The discussion of the available data-set includes on-orbit calibrations, data coverage and limitations, and quality indicators. A brief look at the retrieved wind profiles provides insight into the richness of the spatial and temporal features of the observations.
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