Polar stratospheric cloud observations by MIPAS on ENVISAT: Detection method, validation and analysis of the northern hemisphere winter 2002/2003

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 679-692

  Spang, R ^a   Remedios, J J ^b   Kramer, L J ^b   Poole, L R ^c   Fromm, M D ^d   Muller M ^e   Baumgarten, G ^f   Konopka, P ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Computational Physics Incorporated ^*  (United States)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

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EID: 16444383904     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-5-679-2005     Document Type: Article

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