Auroral Spectrograph Data

Annals of the International Geophysical Year, Volume 25: Auroral Spectrograph Data is a five-chapter text that contains tabulations of auroral spectrograph data. The patrol spectrograph built by the Perkin-Elmer Corporation for the Aurora and Airglow Program of the IGY is a high-speed, low-dispersion, automatic instrument designed to photograph spectra of aurora occurring along a given magnetic meridian of the sky.
Data from each spectral frame were recorded on an IBM punched card. The data recorded on the cards are printed onto the tabulations in this volume. These tabulations are available in the World Data Centers for auroral (instrumental) observations in College, Alaska, Moscow, and Stockholm in the form of this printed volume of the IGY Annals. The remaining four chapters are data tabulations for United States, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, and U.S.S.R. stations.
This book will prove useful to geophysicists.

Contenu

Preface
I. Introduction
Patrol Spectrograph
General Description
Technical Specifications
Film Processing
Data Reduction
Procedures
Sources of Error
Presentation of Data
Film, Punched Cards, and Tabulations
Acknowledgements
References
Figures

1. Patrol Spectrograph
2. Optical System of the Patrol Spectrograph
3. Photometer
4. Recording of a Full Data Cycle
5. The Auroral Spectrum
6. Punched Card for the Auroral Spectrogram
7. Drift of Ice Floe A
8. Map: IGY Auroral Spectrograph Stations
   Tables
   I. Codes Used on Punched Cards and in Tabulations
   II. List of Patrol Spectrograph Stations
   II. Data Tabulations for United States - New Zealand Stations
   C222 Alamogordo
   A092 Alaska (College)
   Andover
   A997 Byrd
   A990 Ellsworth
   B300 Fritz Peak
   A998 Hallett
   A019 Ice Floe A
   B268 Ithaca
   A995 Little America
   A999 Pole (Amundsen-Scott)
   B245 Rapid City
   B207 Shingleton
   A025 Thule
   A977 Wilkes
   B266 Williams Bay
   B994 Invercargill
   III. Data Tabulations for Canadian Stations
   A099 Baker Lake
   A145 Churchill
   A154 Meanook
   A030 Resolute Bay
   A157 Saskatoon
   IV. Report on Observations in the United Kingdom at St. Andrews
   V. Report on Auroral Observations in the USSR
   C071 Abastumani
   C050 Alma-Ata
   A055 Loparskaya
   A143 Roshchino
   A124 Yakutsk
   B356 Zvenigorod