Table 5.
Statistics of the comparisons of nighttime thermospheric wind measured by the ground-based FPIs and the satellite-based MIGHTI, broken up by MIGHTI line-of-sight and emission color ( = number of coincidences, = mean difference, = standard deviation of the difference)
N | mFPI-MIGHTI | sFPI-MIGHTI | Pearson correlation coefficient | |
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Red-line MIGHTI-A | 272 | 11.24 m/s | 51.23 m/s | 0.72 |
Red-line MIGHTI-B | 210 | 1.81 m/s | 49.83 m/s | 0.69 |
Green-line MIGHTI-A | 230 | 3.43 m/s | 21.81 m/s | 0.77 |
Green-line MIGHTI-B | 231 | 5.23 m/s | 21.09 m/s | 0.73 |