TOMEX: A comparison of lidar and sounding rocket chemical tracer wind measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Larsen, M F ^a   Liu, A Z ^b   Bishop, R L ^a   Hecht, J H ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DOPPLER EFFECT; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL RADAR; ROCKETS; SODIUM; IONOSPHERE; SOUNDING ROCKETS; WIND;

CHEMICAL TRACERS; DOPPLER VELOCITY DATA; HORIZONTAL WINDS; MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE; MIXING EXPERIMENTS; STARFIRE OPTICAL RANGE; UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS; WIND MEASUREMENT;

GEOPHYSICS; OPTICAL RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; LIDAR; MESOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSPHERE; TRACER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0141539212     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015678     Document Type: Article

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