Stratospheric ozone and ClO measurement using balloon-borne submillimeter limb sounder

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1258-1265

  Ochiai, Satoshi ^a   Tsujimaru, Sho ^a   Irimajiri, Yoshihisa ^a   Manabe, Takeshi ^b   Murata, Isao ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon borne observation; Limb sounder; Microwave spectroscopy; Retrieval of atmospheric profile; Stratospheric chemistry; Submillimeter wave; Superconducting receiver

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; OBSERVATORIES; RADIOMETRY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

BALLOON-BORNE OBSERVATION; LIMB SOUNDER; RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; STRATOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; SUPERCONDUCTING RECEIVERS;

OZONE;

EID: 20444482484     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.845638     Document Type: Article

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