The Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTI) were developed at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, in order to investigate the dynamics of the upper atmosphere through nocturnal airglow emissions. In this homepage, plots of intensity, two-dimensional images, rotational temperatures, and Doppler wind velocities of nocturnal airglow obtained at several ground stations are available.
PLEASE CONTACT the Principal Investigators, K. Shiokawa or T. Ogawa before using these data for any publications and/or presentations.
Please note that the data are just for browsing purpose and are not fully calibrated.
Current Site Map (Details are in item 2 above)
Contact Address
Dr. Kazuo Shiokawa and Professor Tadahiko Ogawa
Acknowledgements
The OMTIs have been developed in collaboration with T. Kotoh, Y. Katoh, M. Satoh, and M. K. Ejiri of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, T. Nakamura and T. Tsuda of the Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere (RASC), Kyoto University, and R. H. Wiens of the Center for Research in Earth and Space Science, York University.
We are grateful to Drs. M. Ishii, H. Fukunishi, H. Nakajima, S. Okano, Y. Takahashi, and M. Taguchi for their helpful comments and suggestions during the development of OMTIs. Mr. R. Maekawa is greatly acknowledged for his skillful help to construct the automatic control software for the cameras. The all-sky cameras and the photometers were calibrated using facilities at the National Institute of Polar Research, Japan. This Web browser for OMTI plots have been developed in cooperation with the Geospace Research Center of the STE Laboratory, Nagoya University.
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University
3-13, Honohara, Toyokawa, Aichi 442-8507, Japan
tel: 81-533-89-5168 fax: 81-533-89-1539
e-mail: shiokawa [AT] stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp or ogawa [AT] stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Collaborators at each station
Shigaraki: Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH),
Kyoto University, Japan
Darwin: IPS Radio and Space Services, Australia
Kototabang: Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH),
Kyoto University, Japan, and National Institute of
Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Indonesia
Resolute: SRI International, USA, and University of Calgary, Canada
Athabasca: Athabasca University and University of Calgary, Canada
Yonaguni: Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI), Japan, and
National Insitute of Information and Communications Technology
(NiCT), Japan