Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere
Imagers (OMTIs)

Solar-Terrestrial Enviroment Laboratory, Nagoya University 



    
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      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.

  1. Important Notes
  2. Station Locations, Observed Airglow Lines, and Time Resolutions
  3. Figure Captions
  4. Instrumental Papers
  5. Publication List
  6. Picture of the Instruments
  7. Sky Condition (1-hour value)
  8. Sky Condition (1-hour value, Canadian stations)
  9. Sky Condition (1-hour value, Ithaca (USA) station)
Data Plots

Current Site Map (Details are in item 2 above)

Data Plots of Canadian Stations

Data Plots of Chiang Mai (collaboration with NICT)

Data Plots of Kuehlungsborn/Andenes data (collaboration with NIPR and IAP)

Real Time Plot of All-Sky Image at Haleakara in Hawaii

Contact Address

Professor Kazuo Shiokawa, Dr. Yuichi Otsuka
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
tel: +81-52-747-6419 fax: +81-52-747-6323 


Collaborators at each station
Paratunka and Magadan: Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Radiowave
           Propagation (IKIR), Far Eastern Branch of the Russian
           Academy of Sciences
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
Chiang Mai: Chiang Mai University, Thailand, and National Insitute of 
            Information and Communications Technology (NiCT), Japan 
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
Norway: EISCAT Scientific Association, and the National Institute of 
        Polar Research, Japan
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.

The development and operation of OMTIs have been supported by JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (11440145, 13573006, 13136201, 16403007, 18403011, 19403010, 20244080, 23403009, and Priority Area 764), by JSPS Core-to-Core Program, B. Asia-Africa Science Platforms, and by the Dynamics of the Sun-Earth-Life Interactive System (No.G-4, the 21st Century COE Program) of MEXT, Japan.

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