Water vapour and ozone in the mesosphere as measured by UARS MLS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1399-1402

  Pumphrey, Hugh C ^a   Harwood, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; OZONE; SOUNDING APPARATUS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WATER VAPOR;

MESOSPHERE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER (MLS); UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITE (UARS);

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; IONOSPHERE;

MESOSPHERE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; OZONE; UARS;

GLOBAL MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MESOSPHERIC OZONE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; WATER VAPOUR;

EID: 0031156267     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01158     Document Type: Article

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