Middle atmosphere cooling trend in historical rocketsonde data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3371-3374

  Dunkerton, Timothy J ^a   Delisi, Donald P ^a   Baldwin, Mark P ^a  

^a NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOSPHERE; SOLAR CYCLES;

CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING; DATA REDUCTION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

COOLING; MESOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 0032173169     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02385     Document Type: Article

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