Evidence of non-LTE in the CO2 15 μm weak bands from ISAMS and WINDII observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 361-364

  Lopez Puertas M ^a   Dudhia, A ^b   Shepherd, M G ^c   Edwards, D P ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERFEROMETERS; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MICROWAVES; RADIANT HEATING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND;

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; KINETIC TEMPERATURES; MEASUREMENTS OF; MINOR ISOTOPE; MODEL PREDICTION; NORTHERN LATITUDES; RADIANCE EMISSION; RADIATIVE HEATING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

IMPROVED STRATOSPHERIC AND MESOSPHERIC SOUNDER (ISAMS); LOCAL THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM (LTE) EMISSIONS; MESOSPHERE; WIND IMAGING INTERFEROMETER (WINDII);

EID: 0031069558     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03704     Document Type: Article

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