Lidar observations of elevated temperatures in bright chemiluminescent meteor trails during the 1998 Leonid shower

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1815-1818

  Chu, Xinzhao ^a   Liu, Alan Z ^a   Papen, George ^a   Gardner, Chester S ^a   Kelley, Michael ^b   Drummond, Jack ^c   Fugate, Robert ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOR;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHEMILUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL RADAR; WIND;

BRIGHT CHEMILUMINESCENT METEOR TRAILS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURES; LEONID SHOWER;

METEOR IMPACTS;

EID: 0034352495     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL000080     Document Type: Article

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