Long-term temperature trends in the middle and upper atmosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1741-1744

  Golitsyn, G S ^a   Semenov, A I ^a   Shefov, N N ^a   Fishkova, L M ^b   Lysenko, E V ^c   Perov, S P ^c  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

^c CENTRAL AEROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; GASES; GLOBAL WARMING; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; ROCKETS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETERS; GREENHOUSE GASES; IONOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GREENHOUSE GASES; MESOPAUSE; MESOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROXYL; MESOPAUSE; MESOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE TREND;

EMISSION INTENSITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; ROTATIONAL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SOUNDINGS; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

EID: 0030183075     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01592     Document Type: Article

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