First lidar observations of mesospheric hydroxyl

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-54

  Brinksma, E J ^a   Meijer, Y J ^a   McDermid, I S ^b   Cageao, R P ^b   Bergwerff, J B ^c   Swart, D P J ^c   Ubachs, W ^a   Matthews, W A ^d   Hogervorst, W ^a   Hovenier, J W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FLUORESCENCE; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; OXIDES;

MESOSPHERE; MESOSPHERIC HYDROXYL; VIBRATIONAL STATES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

HYDROXYL RADICAL; LIDAR MEASUREMENT; MESOSPHERE;

EID: 0031831588     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL53561     Document Type: Article

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