Potassium Doppler-resonance lidar for the study of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere at the Arecibo Observatory

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 16-18, 2003, Pages 1411-1424

  Friedman, Jonathan S ^a   Tepley, Craig A ^a   Raizada, Shikha ^a   Zhou, Qihou H ^b   Hedin, Jonas ^c   Delgado, Rubén ^d  

^a Arecibo Observatory   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Lidar; Mesosphere and lower thermosphere; Middle atmospheric chemistry; Middle atmospheric temperatures; Resonance lidar

Indexed keywords

AIRGLOW; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DOPPLER LIDAR; MESOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 0344494030     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2003.09.004     Document Type: Article

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