Kinetic and spectroscopic requirements for the measurement of mesospheric ozone at 9.6 μm under non-LTE conditions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 639-642

  Mlynczak, Martin G ^a   Zhou, Daniel K ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; IONOSPHERE; QUENCHING; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

COLLISIONAL QUENCHING RATES; EMISSION MEASUREMENT; LOCAL THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; SPECTROSCOPIC PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL EQUILIBRIUM; VIBRATION ROTATIONS; VIBRATIONAL TEMPERATURE;

OZONE;

COLLISIONAL QUENCHING RATE; LOCAL THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM (LTE); MESOSPHERIC OZONE; STATISTICAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL;

INSTRUMENTATION; OZONE;

EID: 0032029635     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00092     Document Type: Article

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