Stratospheric thermal damping times

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 433-436

  Newman, Paul A ^a   Rosenfield, Joan E ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIATIVE TRANSFER; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIANT HEATING;

ANNUAL CYCLE; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; PARAMETERIZED; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RADIATIVE DAMPING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; THERMAL DAMPING;

DAMPING; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STRATOSPHERE; THERMAL DAMPING;

EID: 0031071771     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03720     Document Type: Article

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