Space-borne H2O observations in the Arctic stratosphere and mesosphere in the spring of 1992

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2325-2328

  Aellig, C P ^a,b   Bacmeister, J ^a   Bevilacqua, R M ^a   Daehler, M ^a   Kriebel, D ^c   Pauls, T ^a   Siskind, D ^a   Kampfer N ^d   Langen, J ^e   Hartmann, G ^f   Berg, A ^g   Park, J H ^h   Russell III, J M ^h  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^h NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALCULATIONS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VAPORS; VORTEX FLOW; WATER;

ARCTIC REGION; MESOSPHERE; MILLIMETER WAVE ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER; MIXING RATIO; STRATOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER; MAS; MESOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; VORTEX; WATER VAPOUR;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0030207008     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01571     Document Type: Article

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