Print Email Facebook Twitter The retrieval of vertical winds in the thermosphere from GOCE acceleration data Title The retrieval of vertical winds in the thermosphere from GOCE acceleration data Author Belt, P. Contributor Doornbos, E. (mentor) Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Astrodynamics and Space Missions Date 2016-05-25 Abstract The retrieval of vertical winds by using acceleration data of satellites has never been done before and therefore the results will be unique. Two different methods can be developed for the retrieval of these winds. The first one is a two-dimensional approach and the second one uses the three-dimensional space. From the results for the vertical winds, it can be concluded that these winds are caused by the daily heating process of the Earth and Joule heating at the poles. Influences of eclipse transitions, an earthquake and magnetic storms can also be discovered in the results. Subject vertical windGOCEaccelerometersthermosphere To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ca731828-fec3-4853-9032-73b831bd58c5 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2016 Belt, P. Files PDF finalmasterthesisPaulineBelt.pdf 28 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ca731828-fec3-4853-9032-73b831bd58c5/datastream/OBJ/view