@Article{PimentaBatAndFagBat:2022:CaStJu,
               author = "Pimenta, Alexandre Alvares and Batista, Paulo Prado and Andrioli, 
                         Vania F{\'a}tima and Fagundes, P. R. and Batista, Inez 
                         Staciarini",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Chinese Academy of 
                         Sciences} and {Universidade do Vale do Para{\'{\i}}ba (UNIVAP)} 
                         and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Possible relationship of meteor disintegration in the mesosphere 
                         and enhancement of sodium atoms: a case study on july 05, 2013",
              journal = "Advances in Space Research",
                 year = "2022",
               volume = "69",
                pages = "1344--1350",
             keywords = "Sodium Lidar, All-sky images, Sodium cloud.",
             abstract = "Our observations show that on some occasions an influx of meteor 
                         ablation possibly contributes to appearance of a sudden 
                         enhancement in mesospheric sodium density. On July 05, 2013, 
                         all-sky images with a narrow sodium filter in the 589 nm emission, 
                         operating at Cachoeira Paulista (22.7 S, 45 W) and lidar 
                         observations of the mesospheric sodium layer, operating at Sao 
                         JoseŽ dos Campos (23.1 S, 45.9 W), both observatories in Brazil, 
                         show a possible relationship of meteor disintegration and 
                         appearance of sodium enhancements on the background layer. After 
                         the meteor impact, the all-sky images showed a sodium cloud that 
                         was seen for about 10 min through the images in the NaD 589 nm 
                         emission, with initial dimensions of approximately 36 km 9 km and 
                         initial speed of about 90 m/s southward. In addition, our 
                         observations show that the movement of sodium cloud in the 
                         horizontal plane around 90 km is relatively anisotropic and change 
                         the dimensions with time.",
                  doi = "10.1016/j.asr.2021.11.028",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.11.028",
                 issn = "0273-1177 and 1879-1948",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "PAPER_METEORO_2021_A.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "25 jun. 2024"
}