SABER observations of mesospheric temperatures and comparisons with falling sphere measurements taken during the 2002 summer MaCWAVE campaign

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Mertens, Christopher J ^a   Schmidlin, Francis J ^b   Goldberg, Richard A ^c   Remsberg, Ellis E ^a   Pesnell, W Dean ^d   Russell III, James M ^e   Mlynczak, Martin G ^a   López Puertas, Manuel ^f   Wintersteiner, Peter P ^g   Picard, Richard H ^h   Winick, Jeremy R ^h   Gordley, Larry L ⁱ  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Nomad Research Inc   (United States)

^e HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^g ARCON CORPORATION   (United States)

^h AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ G and A Technical Software   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT EMISSION; SATELLITES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

INFRARED EMISSION; LIMB EMISSION; RADIATION TRANSFER;

GEOPHYSICS;

INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MESOSPHERE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 18244411937     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018605     Document Type: Article

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