First mesopause temperature profiles from a fixed southern hemisphere site

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1681-1684

  Clemesha, B R ^a   Veselovskii, I ^a   Batista, P P ^a   Jorge, M P P M ^a   Simonich, D M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATOMS; DOPPLER RADAR; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL RADAR; OSCILLATIONS; SODIUM; VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC SODIUM LAYER; HEMISPHERE; MESOPAUSE TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

MESOPAUSE; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 0033563625     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900342     Document Type: Article

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