A note on record-high temperatures at the northern polar stratopause in winter 1997/98

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4169-4172

  Von Zahn, U ^a   Fiedler, J ^a   Naujokat, B ^b   Langematz, U ^b   Kruger K ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDAR; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR REGION; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL WARMING; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIOSONDES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIDAR TEMPERATURE; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; ROCKET SOUNDING; STRATOSPHERIC ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS;

ROCKETS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032534184     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900091     Document Type: Article

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