A global measurement of lower thermosphere atomic oxygen densities

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1387-1390

  Grossmann, K U ^a   Kaufmann, M ^a   Gerstner, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; IONOSPHERE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR ENERGY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HEAT RADIATION; OXYGEN; PHOTODISSOCIATION;

ATOMIC OXYGEN DENSITY; CRYOGENIC INFRARED SPECTROMETERS AND TELESCOPES FOR THE ATMOSPHERE; EMISSION LINES; FINE STRUCTURES; GLOBAL MEASUREMENTS; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; LOWER THERMOSPHERE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CODES;

OXYGEN; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

THERMOSPHERE;

THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 0034352928     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL003761     Document Type: Article

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