Discovery of a water vapor layer in the Arctic summer mesosphere: Implications for polar mesospheric clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3601-3604

  Summers, M E ^a   Conway, R R ^a   Englert, C R ^a   Siskind, D E ^a   Stevens, M H ^a   Russell, J M ^a   Gordley, L L ^a   McHugh, M J ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ICE; SPECTROGRAPHS; SUPERSATURATION; VAPORS; IONOSPHERE;

POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; WATER VAPOR;

MESOSPHERE; NOCTILUCENT CLOUD; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHO; POLAR METEOROLOGY; WATER VAPOR;

ARCTIC;

HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE PARTICLES; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS; REANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO;

EID: 0035883376     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013217     Document Type: Article

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