Implications of enhanced mesospheric water vapor observed by HALOE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2133-2136

  Siskind, David E ^a   Summers, Michael E ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; SATELLITES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VAPORS; WATER;

HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENT (HALOE); MESOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

MESOSPHERE; WATER VAPOUR;

EID: 0032525764     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL51608     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Demore, W. B., et al, Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Stratospheric Modeling, Evaluation Number 11, Publ. 94-26, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., 1994.
2. Dessler, A.J., The small-comet hypothesis, Rev. Geophys., 29, 355, 1991.
3. Dessler A.E., et al., An examination of the total hydrogen budget of the lower stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2563, 1994.
4. Donahue, T. M., Comment on the paper "On the influx of small comets into the earth's upper atmosphere II. Interpretation" by L. A. Frank, J. B. Sigwarth, and J. D. Craven, Geophys. Res. Lett., 13, 555, 1986.
5. Frank, L. A. and J. B. Sigwarth., Atmospheric holes and small comets, Rev. Geophys., 31, 1, 1993.
6. Frank, L. A. and J. B. Sigwarth, Transient decreases of Earth's far-ultraviolet dayglow, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2423, 1997
7. Grier, J. A. and A. S. McEwen, The small-comet hypothesis: An upper limit to the current impact rate on the Moon, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 3105, 1997.
8. 4, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 297, 1996a.
9. Harries, J. E., et al., Validation of measurements of water vapor from the Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE), J. Geophys. Res., 101, 10205, 1996b.
10. LeTexier, H., S. Solomon, and R. R. Garcia, The role of molecular hydrogen and methane oxidation in the water vapour budget of the stratosphere, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 114, 281, 1988.
11. Nedoluha, G. E., et al., Increases in middle atmospheric water vapor as observed by HALOE and the ground-based Water Vapor Millimeter-wave Spectrometer from 1991-1997, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 3531, 1998,
12. 4 measurements from the UARS, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 10,183, 1996.
13. Reid, G. and S. Solomon, On the existance of an extraterrestrial source of water vapor in the middle atmosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 13, 1129, 1986.
14. 2O, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 2097, 1996.
15. 2O with a new chemical-dynamical model, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 3503, 1997a.
16. 3 chemistry, Science, 277, 1967, 1997b.