Polar thermosphere-stratosphere photochemical coupling experiment: Two rocket measurements in polar winter at 69°N

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 745-753

  Iwagami, Naomoto ^a   Yamamoto, Hiromasa ^b   Yajima, Ken ichi ^b   Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki ^b   Watanabe, Takashi ^c   Suzuki, Katsuhisa ^d   Shibasaki, Kazuo ^e   Amemiya, Hiroshi ^f   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^g   Ono, Takayuki ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KOKUGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^g TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING; NITRIC OXIDE; OZONE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE;

ANDOYA; NORWAY;

EID: 0032461139     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352167     Document Type: Article

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