First in situ temperature measurements at the Antarctic summer mesopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 3581-3584

  Lübken, Franz Josef ^b   Jarvis, Martin J ^a   Jones, G Owen L ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; IONOSPHERE; ROCKETS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

SUMMER MESOPAUSE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

MESOPAUSE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA;

ANTARCTICA; HIGH LATITUDES; IN-SITU TEMPERATURE; MESOPAUSE TEMPERATURES; MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RELIABLE MEASUREMENT; ROCKET-BORNE;

EID: 0343183326     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010719     Document Type: Article

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