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  title info:
    title: Thermospheric Density and Wind Determination from Satellite Dynamics
  name:
    name part: Doornbos, Eelco.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 184 p. online resource.
  abstract: The Earth's atmosphere is often portrayed as a thin and finite blanket covering our planet, separate from the emptiness of outer space. In reality, the transition is gradual and a tiny fraction of the atmophere gases is still present at the altitude of low orbiting satellites. The very high velocities of these satellites ensure that their orbital motion can still be considerably affected by air density and wind. This influence can be measured using accelerometers and satellite tracking techniques. The opening chapters of this thesis provide an excellent introduction to the various disciplines that are involved in the interpretation of these observations: orbital mechanics, satellite aerodynamics and upper atmospheric physics. A subsequent chapter, at the heart of this work, covers advances in the algorithms used for processing satellite accelerometry and Two-Line Element (TLE) orbit data. The closing chapters provide an elaborate analysis of the resulting density and wind products, which are generating many opportunities for further research, to improve the modelling and understanding of the thermosphere system and its interactions with the lower atmosphere, the ionosphere-magnetosphere system and the Sun.
  table of contents: Empirical modelling of the thermosphere -- Satellite dynamics and non-gravitational force modelling -- Producing density and crosswind from satellite dynamics observations -- Analysis and interpretation of density and wind data -- Empirical model calibration -- Conclusions and recommendations.
  note: by Eelco Doornbos.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric sciences
  subject:
    topic: Fluids
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Fluid- and Aerodynamics
  classification: QC851-999
  classification: 551.5
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: 9783642251290
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25129-0
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    record creation date: 120117
    record change date: 20151029211909.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-25129-0