Polar mesosphere winter echoes during MaCWAVE

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 530, 2003, Pages 357-362

  Kirkwood, S ^a   Belova, E ^a   Dalin, P ^a   Fricke, K H ^b   Blum, U ^b   Schmidlin, F ^c   Goldberg, R A ^c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; OPTICAL RADAR; ROCKETS; TURBULENCE;

MESOSPHERE;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0242321986     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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