Strato-mesospheric measurements of carbon monoxide with the Odin sub-millimetre radiometer: Retrieval and first results

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Dupuy, E ^a   Urban, J ^a   Ricaud, P ^a   Le Flochmoen E ^a   Lautie N ^b   Murtagh, D ^b   De La Noe J ^a   El Amraoui, L ^a   Eriksson, P ^b   Forkman, P ^c   Frisk, U ^d   Jegou F ^a   Jimenez C ^b,e   Olberg, M ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH SPACE CORPORATION   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

0340 Atmospheric composition and atructure: Middle atmosphere Composition and chemistry; 0341 Atmospheric composition and structure: Middle atmosphere Constituent transport and chemistry (3334); 0394 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Instruments and techniques

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GASES; SCAN MEASUREMENT; SUB-MILLIMETER RADIOMETER (SMR);

CARBON MONOXIDE;

CARBON MONOXIDE; DATA PROCESSING; MESOSPHERE; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 19944428465     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020558     Document Type: Article

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