Rayleigh lidar observations of a mesospheric inversion layer during night and day

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3597-3600

  Duck, Thomas J ^a   Sipler, Dwight P ^a   Salah, Joseph E ^a   Meriwether, John W ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY WAVES; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RADAR;

MESOSPHERIC INVERSION LAYER;

GEOPHYSICS; INVERSION LAYERS;

INVERSION LAYER; LIDAR; MESOSPHERE;

DIURNAL CYCLE; FIELD OF VIEWS; LAPSE RATE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; RAYLEIGH LIDAR; THERMAL INVERSION; WAVE ACTIVITY;

EID: 0035883341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013409     Document Type: Article

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