Mesopause temperature profiling by potassium lidar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 141-144

  Von Zahn, Ulf ^a,b   Höffner, Josef ^a,b  

^a Inst F Atmospharenphysik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDAR INSTRUMENT; MESOPAUSE; OBSERVATION CORRECTION; POTASSIUM LIDAR; TEMPERATURE PROFILING;

OPTICAL RADAR; POTASSIUM; RING LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

ALL SOLID-STATE LASERS; COLUMN DENSITY; FINE STRUCTURES; MEASUREMENTS OF; MESOPAUSE REGION; MESOPAUSE TEMPERATURES; SATURATION EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 0029749394     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL03688     Document Type: Article

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