Variability of polar stratospheric water vapor observed by ILAS

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Pan, L L ^a   Randel, W J ^a   Massie, S T ^a   Kanzawa, H ^b   Sasano, Y ^b   Nakajima, H ^b   Yokota, T ^b   Sugita, T ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

0341 Atmospheric composition and structure: Middle atmosphere constituent transport and chemistry (3334); 3309 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Climatology (1620); 3349 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Polar meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

DATA ACQUISITION; POLAR REGION; POLAR VORTEX; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPECTROMETER; STRATOSPHERE; TRAJECTORY; UARS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VORTEX; VORTICITY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0242334896     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001164     Document Type: Article

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