Improved mesospheric temperature, water vapor and polar mesospheric cloud extinctions from HALOE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  McHugh, Martin ^a   Hervig, Mark ^a   Magill, Brian ^a   Thompson, R Earl ^a   Remsberg, Ellis ^b   Wrotny, Jonathan ^c   Russell III , James ^c  

^a GATS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; OPTIMIZATION; WATER; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS (PMC); HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; SAMPLE VOLUME; VERTICAL PROFILE;

GEOPHYSICS; ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; GLOBAL CHANGE; MESOSPHERE;

EID: 0042384959     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016859     Document Type: Article

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